NASA’s recent detection of unusual signals emerging from Antarctica’s ice sheet has sparked a flurry of questions among the scientific community. These anomalies, detected through advanced ...

16 Nov 2025

A slender glass fiber no thicker than a human hair placed across a particle beam could improve accelerator monitoring. A team is testing the use of hollow-core optical fibers to measure the profile ...

18 Nov 2025

ICARUS has spent five uninterrupted years peering into one of the universe’s strangest secrets: the neutrino. Housed at Fermilab, this massive liquid-argon detector compares neutrino signals at ...

18 Nov 2025

In modern physics, the Higgs boson is famous for giving particles their mass. But a new study suggests an entirely different possibility: mass might come from the geometry of hidden extra dimensions, ...

17 Nov 2025

A novel beam diagnostic instrument developed by researchers in the University of Liverpool's QUASAR Group has been approved for use in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful ...

17 Nov 2025

The “God particle” nickname was attributed to Leon Lederman, a Nobel Prize-winner who wrote a book about it and who had wanted to call it the “Goddamn particle” on account of its elusiveness, but his ...

14 Nov 2025

Cosmologists have traced the Big Bang’s earliest moments with great care, from the explosive inflation that set spacetime in motion to the period of newborn atomic nuclei known as primordial ...

12 Nov 2025

He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics with Francois Englert in 2013. Edinburgh University said Prof Higgs left the medal to the institution in his will, following his death last April at ...

15 Nov 2025