The theorized unseen structure of spacetime could also explain of the outstanding questions about the accelerating expansion ...

An analysis of several experiments aimed at detecting the mysterious neutrino has identified a hint of a crack in the ...

Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something the universe simply hands to particles, a property encoded in ...

New results from the MicroBooNE experiment rule out the existence of a sterile neutrino, reshaping how scientists think about ...

Physicists are exploring whether hidden dimensions and the shape of space could help explain why fundamental particles have ...

A team of quantum physicists has taken a concept that once lived purely in equations and turned it into hardware reality, ...

Particle and nuclear physics evokes evokes images of huge accelerators probing the extremes of matter. But in this round-up ...

After a decade-long analysis, a collaboration of physicists has made the most precise measurement of the mass of a key particle – and it may unravel physics as we know it. The new measurement differs ...

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After a decade of painstaking measurements, scientists have delivered a major plot twist in particle physics: a long-hypothesized “mystery particle” likely doesn’t exist. Using the MicroBooNE ...

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

As a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is “When are you going to find something?” Resisting the temptation to sarcastically ...