The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

The particle in question, known as a sterile neutrino, was supposed to only interact with gravity and have zero interactions ...

"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

In the future, quantum computers are anticipated to solve problems once thought unsolvable, from predicting the course of ...

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, ...

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

Inside the Large Hadron Collider, protons slam together at nearly the speed of light, creating a brief fireball of quarks and ...

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

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

On July 4, 2012, scientists at CERN confirmed the observation of the Higgs boson, an elementary particle first proposed in the 1960s. The boson’s discovery was a momentous occasion, as it meant ...

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