The Big Bang theory is the leading hypothesis for the formation of the universe and everything in it. But when the particles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An international team of researchers is pushing forward with plans for a radically smaller, cheaper particle accelerator by using ...

Ann Finkbeiner is the author of The Jasons and a freelance science writer who covers, among other topics, the intersection between science and national security. Richard Garwin was a particle ...

On the Swiss–French border, at the headquarters of the European laboratory CERN, a battle is under way for the future of particle physics. CERN’s leaders want to build the biggest machine on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine you are given three gumballs of different flavors. You are told that one of them is heavier than the others, and one is ...

In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies of cosmic rays—particles arriving at high speed from outer space. Anderson built an improved ...

In July 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe triumphantly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, the long-sought linchpin of the subatomic world. Interacting with Higgs ...

At Texas A&M University, experimental particle physicist Dr. Rupak Mahapatra spends his days chasing some of the faintest signals in the universe. His lab designs cryogenic semiconductor detectors ...

On the Swiss–French border, at the headquarters of the European laboratory CERN, a battle is under way for the future of particle physics. CERN’s leaders want to build the biggest machine on the ...

What holds the universe together? How did it all begin? And what undiscovered particles and forces lie hidden from view? For decades, these were questions for theorists. Now, we're finding the answers ...

I am sorry to inform you that longtime UCSC physicist Stanley Flatté died earlier this week after a lengthy illness. A professor emeritus of physics, Stan was an eminent researcher who made important ...