It begins on Canada’s West Coast, but it leads, ultimately, to the world’s biggest physics experiment, the Large Hadron Collider – a machine that recreates conditions microseconds after the Big Bang – ...

The High-Luminosity LHC, planned to switch on in 2030, could help physicists unravel mysteries about the Higgs boson, dark matter and more.

After decades of hunting, physicists still don’t know what makes up most of the universe’s matter. Now they need to cast a wider net.

WASHINGTON — Researchers working to solve the mysteries of neutrinos have unveiled the first scientific findings from a new underground facility in China — the most precise measurements yet of certain ...

Diamond Light Source and ISIS Neutron and Muon Source face cuts of up to 20% as Science and Technology Facilities Council seeks savings Britain’s scientific capabilities face “serious damage” with ...

Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles — the standard model of particle physics — must be incomplete, because there are a host of phenomena it cannot ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — Scientists involved in a series of Muon g-2 experiments received the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for achieving the world’s most precise measurement of the muon — ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: For decades, every known atomic and nuclear system has relied on at least two fundamental forces working in concert: the strong force binds protons ...

Muons are one of the key subatomic particles for discovering new physics, but tracking them after particle collisions can be difficult and prone to error. A new study ...

Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles — the standard model of particle physics — must be incomplete, because there are a host of phenomena it cannot ...

MIT researchers bridge worlds of classical and quantum physics. (Representational image)Mark Garlick A new study by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) now bridges the gap ...

A tiny discrepancy in particle physics has loomed for decades as an exciting possible crack in one of science’s most successful theories, hinting at unknown forces or quantum objects. Now, an ...