This cataclysm would result from a change in the Higgs field, a quantum field that pervades all of space. It would be triggered by pure chance, creating a bubble that would expand at almost the speed ...

20 May 2025

The most powerful laser in the U.S. just fired up to full strength for its first official experiment—and it’s an absolute beast.

20 May 2025

A CERN experiment has revealed that up quarks outnumber down quarks after certain collisions, defying predictions. This unexpected twist may challenge key ideas in particle physics. Credit: ...

17 May 2025

In Particle Cosmology and Astrophysics, Dan Hooper captures the rapid developments in particle cosmology over the past three decades.

16 May 2025

Most people have never heard of vacuum decay, but if it happened it would be the biggest natural disaster in the universe. If a blast of energy from a spinning black hole hit our planet, it could rip ...

20 May 2025

University scientists, among first to join the ATLAS Experiment in 1995, contributed to cutting-edge particle research ...

20 May 2025

U of A physicists Doug Gingrich and James Pinfold are among the recipients of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

19 May 2025

Researchers at CERN have used artificial intelligence (AI) to explore one of the Higgs boson’s most elusive behaviors, shedding light on its subtle interaction with charm quarks and bringing science ...

19 May 2025

Symmetry has been considered an unshakable property in physics, but strange quark behavior caused it to fail in a scientific experiment.

17 May 2025

Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider saw that the lead they started with had transformed into approximately 86 billion atoms of gold.

20 May 2025