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

An illustration conveying the idea of a space-based quantum internet, which would seem, like the hypothetical particle of a tachyon, to outpace light. An illustration ...

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 ...

The ancient Greeks conceived of five building blocks of matter – from bottom to top: earth, water, air, fire, and aether. Aether was the matter that filled the heavens and explained the rotation of ...

Theory slayer: Peter Woit says that the Large Hadron Collider has blown “huge holes” in dubious high-energy theories. (Courtesy: Hertzog, Samuel Joseph/CERN) “Talk to particle physicists in private, ...

Ever since Democritus – a Greek philosopher who lived between the 5th and 4th century's BCE – argued that all of existence was made up of tiny indivisible atoms, scientists have been speculating as to ...