Deepfakes and AI in the Courtroom: Report Calls for Legal Reforms to Address a Troubling Trend

From cell phone footage to bodycam and surveillance clips, U.S. courtrooms are awash with video these days, with more than 80% of court cases hinging to some degree on video…

Toward Understanding the Emergence of Hadron Mass

Newswise — NEWPORT NEWS, VA  — Deep in the heart of matter, some numbers don’t add up. For example, while protons and neutrons are made of quarks, nature’s fundamental building blocks bound…

Four ORNL Researchers Named 2025 American Physical Society Fellows

Newswise — Researchers Sang-Ho Kim, An-Ping Li, Bronson Messer and Zac Ward of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been named Fellows of the American Physical Society…

Rare Particle Pairs Point to Primordial Soup’s Temperature at Different Stages

Newswise — UPTON, N.Y. — At the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facility for nuclear physics research at DOE’s Brookhaven…

The Pocket-Sized Tool Transforming Physics Learning

Newswise — We can’t see or feel them, but particles from space are around us all the time. These subatomic particles, called muons, are created when cosmic rays hit the…

In Global Collaboration, Indiana University Scientists Unlock Secrets to Universe’s Building Blocks

Newswise — Scientists at Indiana University have achieved a breakthrough in understanding the universe thanks to a collaboration between two major international experiments studying neutrinos, which are ubiquitous, tiny particles…

In Global Collaboration, IU Scientists Unlock Secrets to the Building Blocks of the Universe

BYLINE: Steven Barnes Newswise — Scientists at Indiana University have achieved a breakthrough in understanding the universe thanks to a collaboration between two major international experiments studying neutrinos, which are…

Neutrinos ‘Flavor’ May Hold Clues to the Universe’s Biggest Secrets

Newswise — COLUMBUS, Ohio – In a new analysis, physicists provide the most precise picture yet of how neutrinos change ‘flavor’ as they travel through the cosmos.  Neutrinos are fundamental particles…

SLAC’s 2026 Panofsky Fellow Ann Wang Hunts for Dark Matter

Read this feature in SLAC’s News Center. Newswise — Ann Wang, who’s on the hunt for dark matter, has been awarded the 2026 Panofsky Fellowship at the Department of Energy’s…

Monitoring Underwater Bridge Tunnels With the Help of High-Energy Muons

Newswise — WASHINGTON, Sept. 16, 2025 – Over 200 underwater bridge tunnels exist for vehicular traffic around the world, providing connectivity between cities. Once constructed, however, these tunnels are difficult…