04/07/22 Quanta Newly measured particle seems heavy enough to break known physics A new analysis of W bosons suggests these particles are significantly heavier than predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics.
04/07/22 CERN LHCb reveals secret of antimatter creation in cosmic collisions The finding may help determine whether or not any antimatter seen by experiments in space originates from dark matter.
04/06/22 Berkeley Lab CUORE team places new limits on the bizarre behavior of neutrinos Physicists are closing in on the true nature of the neutrino—and might be closer to answering a fundamental question about our own existence.
04/06/22 CERN ATLAS strengthens its search for supersymmetry At the recent Rencontres de Moriond conference, the ATLAS collaboration at the LHC presented several results of novel types of searches for particles predicted by Supersymmetry.
Don’t call it toponium 04/01/25 Sarah Charley A large and unexpected excess of top quark pairs has the physics community excited, but the interpretation is still up for debate.
10/11/16 Recruiting team geoneutrino Physicists and geologists are forming a new partnership to study particles from inside the planet.
10/04/16 Creating the universe in a computer Computer simulations help cosmologists unlock the mystery of how the universe evolved.
09/16/16 The secret lives of long-lived particles A theoretical species of particle might answer nearly every question about our cosmos—if scientists can find it.
09/13/16 The hunt for the truest north Many theories predict the existence of magnetic monopoles, but experiments have yet to see them.
09/09/16 A tale of two black holes What can the surprisingly huge mass of the black holes detected by LIGO tell us about dark matter and the early universe?
09/06/16 Turning on the cosmic microphone A new tool lets astronomers listen to the universe for the first time.