Dive Into the Elusive World of Particles With the Global Physics Photowalk Finalists
Here’s something you rarely see so up close. The photograph above shows one of 18 optical modules inside…
America’s Largest Particle Collider Just Shut Down. Here’s What Happens Next
As foretold, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—among the most powerful heavy-ion colliders in the world, second only to…
Something Mysteriously Powerful Slammed Into Earth in 2023. Scientists Now Have a Theory
In astrophysics, extreme events may call for extreme interpretations. Sometimes, that means weighing every possible option for what…
AI for Particle Physics: Searching for Anomalies
In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies…
Neutrino detection may enable nuclear weapons testing without blasts
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory say neutrinos could be used as a diagnostic tool to better understand…
Dark Matter’s Earliest Moments May Have Been Far More Extreme Than We Thought
Dark matter map (2021) by the Dark Energy Survey using weak gravitational lensing data set. The mass maps are weighted projections…
CERN’s Future Circular Collider project gets $1 billion funding
In a historic first for the laboratory, CERN has received $1 billion in private donations to support the…
Dark matter may have begun much hotter than scientists thought
New dark matter research challenges decades-old theories and sheds light on the early beginnings of the Universe. Researchers…
Nanotube design could shrink particle accelerators to hair-thin size
New research suggests that particle accelerators capable of generating intense, coherent X-rays, which are typically produced only at…
Is China’s ‘God particle’ quest over? World’s largest collider project may be dropped
The quest to understand the “God particle” may have just hit a wall in China. An ambitious multibillion-dollar…
Historic Collaboration Suggests “Ghost Particles” Could Explain All of Existence
For decades, scientists have known that neutrinos—often called “ghost particles” for their near-massless, almost undetectable nature—defy easy explanation.…
Neutrinos may hold the key to solving the universe’s biggest secrets
Physicists have been chasing one of the universe’s strangest mysteries—neutrinos, nearly invisible particles that zip through everything, including…