An extremely rare matter-decay event opens up new possibilities for researching the physical world on scales 100 billion ...

(bestdesigns/iStock) We may be one gigantically small step closer to solving the most essential Universal questions, ...

Physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have deployed SubMIT, an interactive computing facility combining ...

Physicists have found evidence of a particle decay so rare that it is expected to occur only around once in every 10 billion "beauty" particles. The result, from the upgraded LHCb experiment at CERN's ...

The standard model of particle physics works really well, but it can't explain why the universe exists. Something is missing, and this trapped particle might hold a clue to the answer ...

Every normal particle of matter has an antimatter counterpart with equal mass but opposite charge. To build their trap, ...

There are sensors around the world deep underground looking for a trace of dark matter. One sensor got a hit, but we still ...

Scientists have unveiled a new theory on the birth of the cosmos, suggesting the early universe was shaped by an ancient particle that has been overlooked for decades.

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When it was time for the 2013 Nobel prize in physics to be announced, Peter Higgs went fishing. Andy Rain/EPA Images Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson, ...

Elementary particle physics reflects the human quest to understand the basic building blocks of nature and the rules that govern the physical world. This quest has led not only to critical scientific ...