As a central hub for scientific exploration, CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is dedicated to probing the enigmatic particles that could potentially elucidate the mystery of dark ...

Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles — the standard model of particle physics — ...

The neutrino “fog” is beginning to materialize. Lightweight subatomic particles called neutrinos have begun elbowing their way into the data of experiments not designed to spot them. Two experiments, ...

In the beginning of the universe, matter somehow outmaneuvered antimatter, creating the stuff-filled universe we know and love today. Scientists from two large long-baseline experiments in the U.S.

Physicists may have just cracked open a hidden side of the quantum world. For decades, every known particle was thought to belong to one of two categories — bosons or fermions — but researchers have ...

Exploring the double slit experiment and what it reveals about observation and physics.

Scientists have pulled off a mind-bending quantum experiment that sounds almost impossible: they showed that tiny metal particles made of thousands of atoms can exist in multiple places at once. Using ...