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…
Impossibly powerful ‘ghost particle’ that slammed into Earth may have come from an exploding black hole — and it could upend both particle physics and cosmology
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ATLAS maps the top quark–Higgs boson interaction with multileptons
One of the central questions in particle physics is how fundamental particles acquire mass. The top quark, as…
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…
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…
Evidence suggests dark matter and neutrinos interact
Scientists may be closing in on one of cosmology’s most enduring mysteries. University of Sheffield experts investigating the…
Fusion reactors may be the key to uncovering dark matter particles
Nuclear fusion is often framed as a future source of clean energy. A new theoretical study is looking…
ATLAS expands its reach into the high-rate frontier
Nature loves symmetry. Nowhere is this more evident than at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), where the vast…
Transforming sensitivity to new physics with single-top-quark events
The top quark, the heaviest known elementary particle, has captivated physicists since its discovery in the 1990s and…
Where elementary particle physics meets quantum science and technology
At the intersection of quantum science and high-energy particle physics, advancements in the development and testing of the…