A philosopher has put forward an argument for rethinking how particles are defined within the standard model of particle ...

For decades, physicists searched for a missing piece of nature's puzzle, an elusive particle believed to explain why matter ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in physics: string theory. This rare particle—never seen before and predicted not ...

Europe's physics lab CERN is planning to build a particle-smasher even bigger than its Large Hadron Collider to continue searching for answers to some of the universe's tiniest yet most profound ...

The world's most powerful particle accelerator will Monday shutter operations for four years of renovations to dramatically ...

Physicists are eyeing charged gravitinos—ultra-heavy, stable particles from supergravity theory—as possible Dark Matter candidates. Unlike axions or WIMPs, these particles carry electric charge but ...

Buried deep underground, this extraordinary machine has already transformed humanity's understanding of the universe.

François Englert, a Belgian theoretical physicist who played a pivotal role in the discovery of the so-called 'God particle'—the Higgs boson—has passe ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator, is entering a major upgrade phase.

We completed JUNO by solving the problems that arose on the construction site one by one. I expect that JUNO may change our ...

Head to Switzerland for a tour of CERN, the world’s largest particle physics research laboratory, to discover the secrets of ...