Scientists at Fermilab’s MicroBooNE experiment have ruled out the existence of the elusive sterile neutrino, a particle proposed for decades to explain puzzling neutrino behavior. Their high-precision ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Quantum physics overturned classical ideas by showing that matter behaves very differently at the ...

The new research demonstrates for the first time that the wave nature of matter persists even at large scales, using massive ...

By bringing the long-standing and opposing views of quantum mechanics together to form a single cohesive theory, a research ...

This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. One of the biggest questions in particle physics is whether the ...

For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other.

Researechers are testing superconducting microwire single-photon detectors (SMSPDs) for use in future particle physics exepriments. The detectors, which were designed and fabricated at JPL and ...

A new measurement of the strong nuclear force, which binds protons and neutrons together, confirms previous hints of an uncomfortable truth: We still don’t have a solid theoretical grasp of even the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A new measurement of the strong nuclear force, which binds protons and neutrons together, confirms previous hints of an uncomfortable ...