In a recent experiment, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN produced particles believed to have only existed in the moments following the Big Bang. This remarkable achievement offers valuable ...

13 Sep 2025

In June, the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published an unprecedented 40-year strategy for US particle physics.

09 Sep 2025

At any given moment, trillions of particles called neutrinos are streaming through our bodies and every material in our surroundings, without noticeable effect. Smaller than electrons and lighter than ...

08 Sep 2025

How are community inputs and debates shaping the ongoing update to the European strategy for particle physics? The Courier consults two scientists tasked with representing CERN Member States and the ...

09 Sep 2025

Quantum mechanics theory predicts that, in addition to exhibiting particle-like behavior, particles of all sizes can also have wave-like properties. These properties can be represented using the wave ...

09 Sep 2025

Physicists have unveiled a new superconducting detector sensitive enough to hunt dark matter particles smaller than electrons. By capturing faint photon signals, the device pushes the search into ...

10 Sep 2025

A Los Alamos scientist has shown that quantum computers can be used to “factorize” group representations, a mathematical concept used in particle physics, engineering and many other fields. (Image ...

13 Sep 2025

Researchers in Germany and Australia have created a simple but powerful tool to detect nanoplastics—tiny, invisible particles that can slip through skin and even the blood-brain barrier. Using an ...

10 Sep 2025

A decade in the making, this upgraded detector will explore the properties of the quark-gluon plasma that formed a millionth of a second after the Big Bang.

09 Sep 2025

The visible patterns produced by the time crystals could be used for data storage and anti-counterfeiting designs.

09 Sep 2025