When the universe first burst into being, all of space was a cosmic cauldron filled with a roiling, fiery liquid of ...

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

After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ...

The Pauli exclusion principle is a cornerstone of the Standard Model of particle physics and is essential for the structure ...

Spin correlations within a particle collider may help crack one of the biggest mysteries known, said physicist Zhoudunming Tu ...

Trillions of neutrinos—nearly massless, neutrally charged particles—pass through us every second, but we only acknowledge ...

A single subatomic particle that hit Earth in 2023 carried roughly 100,000 times more energy than anything humanity has ever ...

Quantum physics paints a strange picture of the world, one filled with spooky connections, unsettling uncertainties ...

Physicists love the Higgs boson, but they hate the God particle. The elusive Higgs particle, which scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator announced Tuesday (Dec. 13) that ...

In 2023, a subatomic particle called a neutrino crashed into Earth with such a high amount of energy that it should have been ...

AI is searching particle colliders for the unexpected ...

Science funding cuts in the UK are expected to be a "devastasting blow" for physics research, affecting international ...