A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...

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

This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if ...

Scientists at Fermilab’s MicroBooNE experiment have ruled out the existence of the elusive sterile neutrino, a particle proposed for decades to explain puzzling neutrino behavior. Their high-precision ...

For years, CERN’s particle experiments have fueled speculation about the possibility of creating a black hole. While the idea sounds alarming, physicists explain that any such black holes would be ...

The power that makes electric vehicles travel farther and smartphones last longer comes from battery materials. Among them, ...

The old fantasy of transforming lead into gold is now a reality, made possible by some wildly inefficient physics at the ...

Scientists have inched a step closer to solving an enduring mystery in physics — why the universe contains any matter at all — thanks to a newly combined analysis from two of the world's leading ...

Just after the Tevatron collider at Fermilab in Illinois released its results, the Large Hadron Collider’s (LHC) ATLAS and CMS experiment teams presented their latest preliminary results in the search ...

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Scientists have made a particle physics discovery that they say could mean nothing less than the upheaval of our entire model of the building blocks of the universe—if their results can be ...