Physicist Robert Millikan's answer was to drop electrically charged oil drops through the plates of a capacitor and adjust the voltage of the capacitor until the electric field it emitted ... piece of ...

Discovered at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, the elusive Higgs boson particle has been at the centre stage for ...

The most familiar example of this is light: light is simultaneously a wave in the electromagnetic field and a stream of particles called photons. In the Higgs boson’s case, the field came first.

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

In a contest where dominant defense for both squads shone through, No. 9 Michigan blanked the Wildcats (19-1, 8-1 Big Ten ... of the tournament at Lakeside Field after earning a first-round ...

Michigan field hockey has locked up its 20 th NCAA tournament berth, scratching past top-seeded (and national No. 1) Northwestern in the Big Ten tournament final in College Park, Maryland.

Photo by Sydney Chandler/The Daily Campus. The UConn field hockey team is in Providence this weekend to compete in the Big East conference tournament. Having just secured the Big East regular season ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

Alayna Taylor blasted the ball from far beyond the box, high and just over the outstretched arms of the goalkeeper to lift the UConn women’s soccer team to a 2-1 overtime victory over Xavier in ...

The Indonesian artist’s latest videos combine quantum physics and mysticism, opening new portals through which to explore ...

Since the discovery of the acceleration, theorists have calculated that the universe will continue to expand faster and ...

The No. 16 Iowa field hockey fell to No. 2 Maryland, 1-0, on Thursday at the Field Hockey and Lacrosse Complex in College Park, Maryland, cutting the Hawkeyes’ Big Ten Tournament short early. The game ...