Can we ever detect the graviton? (No, but why not?) physics.particle Article 944 words, published Oct 16 2024 26 votes
Neutrinos: The inscrutable “ghost particles” driving scientists crazy physics.particle Article 635 words 20 votes
Does light itself truly have an infinite lifetime? physics.particle physics.quantum physics.astro Article 2648 words, published Apr 16 2024 10 votes
Nobel Prize-winning phycisist Peter Higgs died at 94. About sixty years ago he proposed the Higgs Boson, an elememtary particle essential in describing mass in the Standard Model of particle physics. physics.particle Link 28 votes
Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94 physics.particle Article 359 words 27 votes
Beyond solid, liquid, and gas: The seven states of matter physics.particle Article 1820 words, published Apr 21 2022 10 votes
Why the empty atom picture misunderstands quantum theory chemistry physics.particle physics.quantum Article 22 votes
Wobbling muon experiment could reveal a fifth force of nature — if the results hold up physics.particle Article 672 words 20 votes
Citizen science observation of a gamma-ray glow associated with the initiation of a lightning flash physics.particle Link 5 votes
The $21,000,000,000 hole in Texas - The Superconducting Super Collider physics.nuclear physics.particle Video 2:58:16 28 votes
A crucial particle physics computer program risks obsolescence physics.particle Article 798 words 12 votes
No one in physics dares say so, but the race to invent new particles is pointless physics.particle Article 946 words 12 votes
LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty) experiment discovers three new exotic particles physics.particle Article 753 words 11 votes
Results from the Fermilab g-2 experiment indicate new physics with 4.2 sigma confidence, stronger than previous measurements physics.particle physics.new Link 23 votes
CERN experiments announce first indications of a rare Higgs decay to two muons physics.particle Article 1295 words 5 votes
Hadrons are much more than the familiar protons and neutrons physics.particle Article 1566 words 3 votes
A super sensitive dark-matter search yields strange results. Researchers say there are three possible explanations for the anomalous data: One is mundane. Two would revolutionize physics physics.particle Article 772 words 4 votes
CERN makes bold push to build $23-billion super collider physics.particle Article 1024 words 12 votes
Physicists take their closest look yet at an antimatter atom physics.particle physics.quantum Article 10 votes
Why the search for dark matter depends on ancient shipwrecks physics.particle Article 1858 words, published Oct 25 2019 7 votes
Robert R. Wilson's congressional testimony in favor of building a particle collider at Fermilab, April 1969 physics.particle Link 5 votes
CERN reveals plans for the Future Circular Collider (FCC) - almost four times longer than the current LHC physics.particle Article 341 words 19 votes
Bizarre particles keep flying out of Antarctica's ice, and they might shatter modern physics physics.particle physics.astro Article 1837 words 14 votes
LHC physicists embrace brute-force approach to particle hunt physics.particle Article 1050 words 9 votes
Going nowhere fast: After the success of the Standard Model, experiments have stopped answering to grand theories. Is particle physics in crisis? physics.particle Article 2896 words 3 votes
Scientists at CERN have observed direct coupling of the Higgs Boson to the top quark physics.particle physics.quantum Link 7 votes