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

Watch the PAX East Developer Walkthrough Video for Particle Hearts, a puzzle adventure game developed by Underwater Fire. Players will explore a world made of particles and make use of special ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

A mistakenly leaked video from Europe's CERN particle-physics center reports that a new subatomic particle has been observed at the Large Hadron Collider, in the range where the long-sought Higgs ...

This 3-D display shows a particle event at ProtoDUNE. The video shows the full size of the ProtoDUNE-SP detector (white box) and the direction of the particle beam (yellow arrow). Particles from other ...

Well, this is one of the more interesting games we’ve seen in a while. It’s called Particle Hearts—a third-person adventure title developed by Underwater Fire and published by First Break Labs. What ...

Catching a particle. Thousands of tiny model aerosols pass through optical tweezers when suddenly, boom! One particle becomes trapped. The aerosol particle is glowing green as it scatters the laser ...

Using a precisely aligned pair of laser beams, scientists can now hold a single aerosol particle in place and monitor how it charges up. The particle’s glow signals each step in its changing ...