Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

CERN's ALICE experiment has resolved the puzzle of deuteron formation, showing that most deuterons form via resonance-driven ...

Scientists analyzing data from heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—the world's most powerful particle ...

Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that ...

You can’t see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us. They come from cosmic rays — high-energy particles that can originate from exploding ...

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us. They come from cosmic rays—high-energy particles that can originate from exploding ...

The Large Hadron Collider is going to be shut down — not permanently, but for a pretty long time — and the famous atom smasher’s eventual final retirement is also something that top scientists are now ...

A scientist who achieved worldwide fame with the discovery of the so-called ‘God particle’ left a £3.2 million fortune. Professor Peter Higgs was a researcher at the University of Edinburgh when he ...