Particle Physics

What if the universe’s biggest mystery has no answer?

Physicists are searching for what lies underneath the particles we know

Could the hunt for the universe’s missing matter be the biggest wild goose chase in scientific history?

In 2022 researchers detected a very odd photon from an enormous gamma-ray burst that should have been destroyed on its way to Earth

The world’s biggest dark matter search saw a particle it cannot explain

In its hunt for dark matter, the XENONnT experiment has detected the rare, feeble glow of neutrinos smacking into electrons

Growing crystals “like alchemy,” researchers plotted out the ideal site within the lattice to build a nuclear clock

Researchers have nailed down an elusive quantity called baryon number, which may be responsible for the cosmic mismatch between matter and antimatter

For almost 60 years, a global ban on nuclear weapons in space has held up. But the growing number of satellites and increasing geopolitical tension has scientists worried the moratorium could fail

After decades of debate, the scientific case is clear for Europe’s Future Circular Collider, a colossal successor to the Large Hadron Collider. But transforming this megaproject from vision to reality is far from guaranteed

Noether's work helped prove the conservation of energy in physics, a key foundation for Einstein's theory of relativity

The energy entrepreneur talks about the state of science innovation in the U.S.