Europe's top physics lab CERN launches its newest particle accelerator, billed as a key step towards future experiments that could unlock the universe's greatest mysteries.

Proton collisions at the LHC appear wildly chaotic, but new data reveal a surprising underlying order. The findings confirm that a basic rule of quantum mechanics holds true even in extreme particle ...

The particle in question, known as a sterile neutrino, was supposed to only interact with gravity and have zero interactions ...

China’s decision to halt work on what was meant to be the world’s largest particle accelerator has reshaped the global race ...

Physicists are increasingly entertaining a radical possibility: our familiar universe of three dimensions of space and one of ...

In one of the rockiest years yet for science, Philadelphia-area researchers still managed to celebrate many wins. Here are five of them.

Particle and nuclear physics evokes evokes images of huge accelerators probing the extremes of matter. But in this round-up of my favourite research of 2025 I have chosen five stories in which ...

A deeply disturbing and controversial line of thinking has emerged within the physics community. It's the idea that we are reaching the absolute limit of what we can understand about the world around ...

Dr. Vopson argues that we’re living in a simulation because the mathematics behind how the universe functions doesn’t match ...

For over ten years, physicists pursued a mysterious particle that could have upended modern physics. Now, researchers say it ...

After years of careful investigation, researchers working on the Micro Booster Neutrino Experiment (MicroBooNE) have determined that a ...