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The Large Hadron Collider is going to be shut down — not permanently, but for a pretty long time — and the famous atom ...

New results from the MicroBooNE experiment rule out the existence of a sterile neutrino, reshaping how scientists think about ...

An analysis of several experiments aimed at detecting the mysterious neutrino has identified a hint of a crack in the ...

A team of physicists has coaxed a single, photon-like particle into behaving as if it lives in 37 different quantum ...

Physicists are exploring whether hidden dimensions and the shape of space could help explain why fundamental particles have ...

Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something the universe simply hands to particles, a property encoded in ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

If you want to explain what was and what is, you need particle physics. Because everything we see consists of molecules and atoms, and atoms in turn consist of atomic nuclei and electrons. The atomic ...

Particle and nuclear physics evokes evokes images of huge accelerators probing the extremes of matter. But in this round-up ...

The Standard Model is an "astoundingly successful" theory in particle physics, detailing the behavior and interactions of 17 fundamental particles (12 fermions and 5 bosons), with thousands of precise ...

In 1963, Maria Goeppert Mayer won the Nobel Prize in physics for describing the layered, shell-like structures of atomic nuclei. No woman has won since. One of the many women who, in a different world ...