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

After years of careful investigation, researchers working on the Micro Booster Neutrino Experiment (MicroBooNE) have determined that a ...

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

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

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

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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Esra Barlas Yücel, a researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, about Fermilab's most precise measurements of the muon particle's magnetic wobble. It's ...

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 ...

Albert Einstein was right about a shocking among of things, but not necessarily everything.

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 ...