Particle Physics

A Massless, Invisible Particle Just Showed Up in a Lab & It Could Change How the World Uses Electricity

David Pines sat down in 1956 and described a particle that had never been…


How a Small Asymmetry at CERN Points to Why Our Universe Exists

Why didn’t the universe erase itself the moment it began? According to…


Scientists Revive a Forgotten Idea to Solve One of the Universe's Biggest Mysteries

Somewhere in the back of your mind, a question forms that you may never have…


Physicists Test a Possible Fifth Force of Nature Inside Calcium Atoms

For more than half a century, the Standard Model of particle physics has been…