Understanding the universe's building blocks, the Standard Model categorizes particles and explains forces, yet leaves ...

“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Scientists have long sought evidence to refute string theory, but a new test seeks to disprove key aspects with help from the Large Hadron Collider.

Scientists say fragments of energy may be the fundamental building blocks of the universe—not particles and waves.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making significant strides in the realm of physics, demonstrating immense potential across ...

Many theories are rock-solid: Scientists have just as much confidence in the theories of relativity, quantum mechanics, ...

Recent progress on both analog and digital simulations of quantum fields foreshadows a future in which quantum computers ...

Over the past decades, many research teams worldwide have been trying to detect dark matter, an elusive type of matter that ...

This week, this enormous scientific facility, ten years in the making, will begin its hunt for the most elusive particles in ...

NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission has uncovered surprising behavior of pickup ions drifting through the solar wind ...

When mathematicians revived ignored mathematical structures, they found that overlooked particles, called "neglectons," could ...

What looks like ordinary sand, rocks or snow flowing in one direction can actually hide swirling currents that move in ...