For decades, physicists searched for a missing piece of nature's puzzle, an elusive particle believed to explain why matter ...

A philosopher has put forward an argument for rethinking how particles are defined within the standard model of particle ...

Europe's physics lab CERN is planning to build a particle-smasher even bigger than its Large Hadron Collider to continue searching for answers to some of the universe's tiniest yet most profound ...

Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current ...

The world's most powerful particle accelerator will Monday shutter operations for four years of renovations to dramatically ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in physics: string theory. This rare particle—never seen before and predicted not ...

Two independent lines of evidence from the world’s most powerful particle experiments are converging on the same uncomfortable conclusion: something is producing signals that the Standard Model of ...

Physicists are eyeing charged gravitinos—ultra-heavy, stable particles from supergravity theory—as possible Dark Matter candidates. Unlike axions or WIMPs, these particles carry electric charge but ...

His work paved the way for the discovery of the Higgs boson, which explained how particles acquire mass, solving one of the ...

François Englert, a Belgian theoretical physicist who played a pivotal role in the discovery of the so-called 'God ...