particle physics
Meet the Artist Animating the Kaleidoscopic Beauty of Quantum Physics
Markos Kay's new short film features CERN-approved subatomic visualizations.
Why the Higgs Boson Found at the Large Hadron Collider Could Be an ‘Impostor’
An Iowa physicist intends to find out.
Inside the Dark Matter Lab Buried Over a Mile Underground
Motherboard visits SNOLAB, where scientists are searching for dark matter, supernovas, and neutrinos inside an active mine.
Is the Higgs Boson Acting Weird Again at the LHC?
A new signal excess is probably a statistical fluke, but, if not, we could again be talking about New Physics.
The Dark Cloud of High-Energy Physics
The LHC 'nightmare scenario' came and went and, here we are, still doing science.
Antarctic IceCube Experiment Comes Up Empty on Neutrino Ghost Hunt
Sterile neutrinos, a once-promising dark matter candidate, just might not exist.
Physicists Collide Quasiparticles for the First Time
Femtosecond lasers offer a peek into a whole new quasiworld.
A Large Hadron Collider Upgrade Will Produce 15 Million Higgs Bosons Per Year
CERN’s High-Luminosity upgrade to the LHC moves from design to prototyping phase.
Archaeologists Plan on Using Cosmic Ray Muons to Peer Inside the Pyramids
The ScanPyramids project plans on using muon tomography to unravel the 4500-year-old mystery of how pyramids were made.
Watch Deerhoof Play Inside the World's Largest Particle Collider
Deerhoof are the first band to play inside of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.