Someone Asked Physicists What They Really Believe About the Universe and… Yikes
You’d hope that the world’s brightest scientific minds would more or less agree on the nature of our…
Physicists May Be on the Verge of Discovering “New Physics” at CERN
Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have uncovered new hints that certain particle decays may not behave as…
Weird Quantum Gadget Spits Out Chaotic ‘Sound Particles’
Scientists can now sculpt the quantum states of tiny particles to their liking—an odd yet mind-blowing revolution leading…
Scientists Develop New Way To Track Particles in 3D
Illustration of the first prototype of a new monolithic detector system capable of performing ultrafast, 3D and high-resolution…
Decade-long muon calculation shrinks hope for a fifth force of nature
For years, one tiny mismatch in particle physics carried outsized hopes. The muon, a heavier and short-lived cousin…
Prototype ‘Camera’ Offers a New Way to Visualize Elusive Ghost Particles
Central to many unsolved mysteries in physics are tiny, weakly interacting particles that require heavy-lift detection methods. This…
Scientists Were Wrong About This Strange “Rule-Breaking” Particle
A muon is a fundamental particle similar to an electron but about 200 times heavier and much less…
Physicists uncover quantum states that govern muon-catalyzed fusion
Muon-catalyzed fusion is one of those strange concepts that’s been promising enough to keep researchers interested, but stubbornly…
Undergraduate students built a cavity detector to search for axion dark matter
Dark matter is supposed to be everywhere, threaded through the Milky Way and outnumbering ordinary matter by a…
The coldest ever hunt for dark matter has begun deep underground
Two kilometres underground near Sudbury, Ont., a machine has reached a temperature so low it barely seems real.…
Physicists achieve most accurate measurement yet of the W boson
For a few years, one of particle physics’ most unsettling numbers seemed to be pointing somewhere strange. The…
Physicists zero in on the mass of the fundamental W boson particle | MIT News
When fundamental particles are heavier or lighter than expected, physicists’ understanding of the universe can tip into the…