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

The famed collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory has ended operations, but if all goes to plan, a new collider will rise ...

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

Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have found that the quark-gluon ...

An old puzzle in particle physics has been solved: How can quantum field theories be best formulated on a lattice to ...

This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if nothing else, the most expensive particle of all time. It's a bit of an unfair ...

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

This puzzle is known as the problem of time, and it remains one of the most persistent obstacles to a unified theory of ...

The way time ticks forward in our universe has long stumped physicists. Now, a new set of tools from entangled atoms to black ...

To reach this conclusion, the researchers examined the most basic form of entanglement between identical particles using the concept of nonlocality introduced by physicist John Bell. While ...

In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies of cosmic ...

Toshihide Maskawa, 2008 Nobel laureate in physics, once struggled with homework and poor grades, yet his curiosity and ...