Every second, particles zip through your body at nearly the speed of light. They rain down from a storm high in the sky, where cosmic rays, a powerful type of interstellar matter, are constantly ...

14 Sep 2026

About the Particles Hitting Earth For the first time, physicists have recreated a key collision behind cosmic-ray showers using oxygen and protons inside CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, giving ...

15 Sep 2026

A quantitative study of different dark-matter scenarios finds that primordial black holes can be just as 'natural' as traditional particle theories.

16 Sep 2026

Every second, particles zip through your body at nearly the speed of light. They rain down from a storm high in the sky, where cosmic rays, a powerful type of i ...

15 Sep 2026

Physicists at the University of Oxford have helped confirm that one of the strangest phenomena in physics—quantum entanglement—occurs even among some of the heaviest and most fleeting particles ever ...

14 Sep 2026

Something spooky has been spotted in CERN's Large Hadron Collider. In the cascade of debris that sprays out from high-energy collisions in the world's most powerful particle collider, physicists have ...

14 Sep 2026

Atlas Technologies helps Oxford physicists track quantum entanglement in Z bosons at the Large Hadron Collider.

15 Sep 2026

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and ETH Zurich have produced an intense, cold beam of exotic atoms. They aim to use this to test a fundamental principle of Einstein’s theory of gravity ...

14 Sep 2026

Some of the most important particles in the universe are also among the hardest to see. Neutrinos, for example, pass through ordinary matter so easily that enormous numbers of them travel through our ...

16 Sep 2026

Physicists at CERN have directly measured proton-oxygen collisions at 9. 62 TeV per nucleon pair, closely recreating an important type of interaction that occurs when extremely energetic cosmic rays ...

15 Sep 2026

After conducting what is likely the largest survey of its kind, researchers reported that a vast majority of physicists suspect the big bang doesn’t necessarily mark the beginning of time. And as ...

15 Sep 2026