The CMS and ATLAS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have observed an unforeseen feature in the behaviour of top ...

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a major new scientific facility jointly funded by the US National Science Foundation ...

The hidden neutrino As we experimentally observe them now, neutrinos cannot interact with the Higgs field because they’re are missing something vital: They are not right-handed. Particles can be ...

The Standard Model of particle physics is both fantastically successful and glaringly incomplete. Its predictions have pieced together many of the known features of the universe and guided physicists ...

Nima Arkani-Hamed Professor, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton Theoretical physicist In Particle Fever, theorist Nima Arkani-Hamed says on camera, “I’ve spent the last 15 years thinking about ...

Yesterday, at the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference taking place in La Thuile, Italy, the LHCb collaboration at CERN reported a new milestone in our understanding of the subtle yet profound ...

Near miss ALICE is designed to study quark-gluon plasma, the hottest and densest form of matter in the universe. “Ultimately, we're trying to understand how matter behaves at the most extreme ...

The particles we meet The radioactivity born inside your body is only a fraction of the radiation you naturally (and harmlessly) come in contact with on an everyday basis. The average American ...

2. Gravity and weight are not the same thing. Astronauts on the space station float, and sometimes we lazily say they are in zero gravity. But that’s not true. The force of gravity on an astronaut is ...

Getting there Before building the DUNE detectors, scientists must test and validate their technology. Scientists at European research center CERN have taken on this task by building and operating a ...

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, when New York City went into lockdown, artist Luca Buvoli found himself reimagining Albert Einstein’s ideas about time. Two years later, his artwork "A Brief History of ...

But Ferreira did find posting in Spanish more difficult. Even though Spanish is her first language, she had learned astronomy entirely in English, so sometimes the translations were “extremely hard.” ...