Inside Humanity’s Ancient Obsession With Conquering Time
In Greek mythology, Chronos (not the guy who ate his kids), the primordial god of time, was depicted…
Glueball Confirmed: Particle Made of Pure Force Closes Fifty-Year Physics Search
In a special plenary session at ICHEP 2026 — the world’s premier particle physics conference, held in Natal,…
ATLAS breaks its own record with new search for double-Higgs production
Producing two Higgs bosons in a single proton-proton collision is among the rarest processes at the LHC. Yet…
Scientists Discover Extreme Acceleration Inside a Nuclear Fireball
Two Lorentz-contracted nuclei (left and right) collide and ignite a fireball that expands violently outward. Credit: Xu-Guang Huang…
CERN Experiments Detect Signs of the Universe’s Primordial Matter
Collisions between oxygen and neon nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider are revealing signs of quark–gluon plasma, the…
World’s largest neutrino detector pushed to 300,000 volts at CERN
Scientists have been testing the limits of the world’s largest neutrino experiment after they subjected the prototype detector…
New superconducting magnets reach full power for HiLumi LHC upgrade
CERN has just upgraded the world’s largest particle accelerator after successfully powering a new generation of superconducting magnets…
The Large Hadron Collider Is Getting Its Biggest Upgrade Yet. What Comes Next Could Change Physics
Deep beneath the French-Swiss border, the world’s largest scientific instrument has fallen silent. After years of smashing proton…
Dark matter may be naturally tuned to a hidden fifth dimension
Dark matter appears to hold galaxies together, yet it has never shown itself directly. A new theory suggests…
Scientists Turned a 200-Year-Old Light Trick Into a Modern Breakthrough
A Poisson spot contains four types of skyrmions in one light spot. Credit: Optica / NTU Singapore A…
Decades-Old Dark Matter Explanation Fails Its Most Direct Test Yet
A decades-old dark matter claim is facing a decisive new challenge. The result clears the way for future…
Scientists achieve the impossible by creating matter from empty space
Something has been lurking in empty space, and for the first time, physicists may have caught it leaving…