Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.
In its first moments, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. These elementary particles ...
This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if ...
For centuries, the principle of symmetry has guided physicists towards more fundamental truths, but now a slew of shocking ...
Scientists analyzing data from heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—the world's most powerful particle ...
In 1929, Ernest Orlando Lawrence invented the cyclotron: a compact, efficient particle accelerator that used magnets. Two ...
Chinese scientists have made the first direct observation of a quantum effect that was proposed almost 90 years ago and could ...
The way time ticks forward in our universe has long stumped physicists. Now, a new set of tools from entangled atoms to black ...
In a landmark discovery that bridges nearly a century of theoretical physics, a Chinese research team has successfully ...
After decades, Chinese researchers confirm the Migdal effect that may help reveal dark matter particles.