Ancient Greeks imagined that everything in the natural world came from their goddess Physis; her name is the source of the word physics.
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Friederike Bock, a Eugene P. Wigner Fellow, wants everyone to know scientists arenāt just robotsāthey want to help others understand their research, and they have wide-ranging interests.

At the nexus of theory and computation, physicist Gaute Hagen of the Department of Energyās 91°µĶų runs advanced models on powerful supercomputers to explore how protons and neutrons interact to ābuildā an atomic nucleus from

Two early career researchers at the Department of Energy's 91°µĶų have been included on the āā following an international competition conducted b
The Department of Energyās 91°µĶų has named Marcel Demarteau as Physics Division Director, effective June 17.

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 11, 2019āAn international collaboration including scientists at the Department of Energyās 91°µĶų solved a 50-year-old puzzle that explains why beta decays of atomic nuclei

More than 1800 years ago, Chinese astronomers puzzled over the sudden appearance of a bright āguest starā in the sky, unaware that they were witnessing the cosmic forge of a supernova, an event repeated countless times scattered across the universe.

The Big Bang began the formation and organization of the matter that makes up ourselves and our world.

Imagine back nearly 14 billion years. The universe was very small, very hot and very dense.

The worldās most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), began running at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in 2009. The LHC spends most of its time studying the puzzles of high-energy physics.