Stories by Edwin Cartlidge

Four new elements were added in 2015, but some researchers say the announcement was premature

Large Hadron Collider’s failure to detect new particles beyond the Higgs has eroded the case for Japan’s proposed linear accelerator

Multi-telescope project has ambitious goals and a big price tag

Some theorists say a radioactive decay anomaly could imply a fundamental new force 

Measurements show that hydrogen sulfide superconducts much closer to room temperature than other materials do

Religious leaders and scientists are set to discuss the moral implications of global warming as the Pope drafts a key letter

Hydrogen sulfide is found to conduct electricity without resistance at a record-high temperature of minus 83 degrees Celsius

Physicists have now shown how to encode three quantum bits, the kind of data that might be used in the computers of tomorrow, using just two photons

A validation of a long-predicted quantum effect points the way to tiny, highly efficient heat engines or information carried by heat exchanges instead of electrical ones