Particle Physics

A recent experiment revealed that individual dark points on a light wave can move faster than the wave itself

After winning a Breakthrough Prize, the world’s most lucrative science award, theoretical physicist David Gross is using the moment to warn of nuclear war’s existential threat—and how we can escape it

This year’s winners include hundreds of physicists across more than 30 institutions

With performance three times better than copper’s, this new material could substantially improve heat management of electronics, data centers and energy systems

A new calculation helps narrow down the mass of the W boson, one of the heaviest fundamental particles in the universe

A single subatomic particle from deep space had the same energy as a baseball pitch, and scientists still don’t know how it got here

Scientists at CERN built a container weighing about a ton to transport just 92 subatomic antimatter particles without annihilating them

The Large Hadron Collider just produced a never-before-seen particle made of charm and down quarks

Although President Trump has claimed Iran was weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon, much more work was needed for the country to do so

After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest and only particle collider—has ceased operations, but its science lives on

Scientists have found “strange quarks” that originated as virtual particles that sprang from nothing

Hidden beneath the hills of southern China, the JUNO observatory shows promise in solving neutrino mysteries