Every second, particles zip through your body at nearly the speed of light. They rain down from a storm high in the sky, ...
A South Dakota-based instrument built to detect theoretical dark matter particles has sensed a particle interaction that's ...
Astronomers have uncovered new details about a powerful pulsar wind nebula hidden inside the CTA 1 supernova remnant, ...
With little in the way of significant discoveries since 2012, there have been mutterings that particle physics is at a dead ...
In 2022, researchers detected a very odd photon from an enormous gamma ray burst that should have been destroyed on its way ...
A search for one mysterious particle unexpectedly revealed evidence for two different structures that may belong to the ...
Dark matter is an elusive, untouchable substance that binds galaxies together. A shadowy signal could signify the first time a particle has ever been detected.
More than a kilometer underground, in what used to be a gold mine, inside a tank filled with tons of liquid xenon, “something” struck the nucleus of an atom. The tiny collision left an unusual energy ...
A study conducted in 1998 unveiled that water in Fort Point Channel was renewed within just a few days. Contrary to ...
The discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012 represented a major turning point for particle physics marking the completion of what is known as the standard model of particle physics. Yet, the standard ...
When the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) began operations, a small but noisy group of people tried to stop it out of fear. Their reasoning: The energies produced as protons slammed into each other at ...