China's Circular Electron Positron Collider was meant to pick up where the Large Hadron Collider left off, but the project ...

In high-intensity laser–matter interactions, including laser-induced particle acceleration, physicists generally want to work ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Our universe plays by certain rules, which originate from different branches of physics. But sometimes the rules seem ...

Researchers have identified a newly recognized type of extremely energetic particles located in the Sun’s upper atmosphere, revealing a phenomenon that had not been detected before. Solar scientists r ...

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 ...

Solar physicists say they have found a key source of intense gamma rays unleashed when Earth’s nearest star produces its most ...