The elusive Higgs particle has the power to undo physics as we know it. The fact that it hasn't could have big implications about the nature of the universe. When you purchase through links on our ...

Although our universe may seem stable, having existed for a whopping 13.7 billion years, several experiments suggest that it is at risk – walking on the edge of a very dangerous cliff. And it’s all ...

Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current ...

Lucien Heurtier works for King's College London. Lucien Heurtier's work is supported in part by the U.K. Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) under GrantST/X000753/1 Although our universe ...

Some physicists think there is a unit of matter more fundamental than what has been experimentally confirmed to date. They think that everything in the universe is made of tiny vibrating strands of ...

Tachyons might sound like creatures ripped out of a George R. R. Martin novel, but the reality is that they refer to as-yet-non-existent particles not only capable of travelling faster than the speed ...

From mysterious dark matter to the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei, the past 12 months have reiterated just how strange particle physics can be. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...