A neglected force produced by neutrinos and other particles helps atomic physics measurements align with predictions of the ...

For a few years, one of particle physics’ most unsettling numbers seemed to be pointing somewhere strange. The trouble ...

Two independent lines of evidence from the world’s most powerful particle experiments are converging on the same uncomfortable conclusion: something is producing signals that the Standard Model of ...

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In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies of cosmic rays—particles arriving at high speed from outer space. Anderson built an improved ...

The new calculation, made at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, could help solve a niggling mystery about this ...

Experiments with hydrogen confirm fundamental quantum theory up to the 13th decimal place and solve proton radius puzzle Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ), Garching, in ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a recent paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the first, very rapid ...