Brilliant white roofs have been used to reflect sunlight and cool homes since ancient times in Greece. Now, researchers in California have added a modern spin to the strategy. They’ve created a new multilayer coating that cools using a one-two punch. First, it reflects nearly all the incoming

Last week, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider — the particle accelerator used to discover the Higgs boson in 2012 — announced that they discovered two subatomic particles, the baryons Xi_b'- and Xi_b*-. If that sentence leaves you feeling just a bit mystified, you're not alone. Physics might

“The CERN data are generally taken as evidence that the particle is the Higgs particle. It is true that the Higgs particle can explain the data but there can be other explanations, we would also get these data from other particles,” said Dr Mads Toudal Frandsen of the University of Southern

Black holes have a reputation for devouring everything in their path. But some of them like to give as well as receive. A small fraction of supermassive black holes—the ginormous ones that lurk at the centers of galaxies—fire off light-speed jets of particles as they snack. A new survey of more

Quantum mechanics is needed to explain how our Universe works at the microscopic scale, and is believed to apply to all matter. But there is a long-standing and passionate debate among physicists about what all the math really means. The ‘Many Interacting Worlds’ approach proposed by the team, led