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 ...

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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

Does gravity act equally on all particles in the universe, or are there differences between ordinary and exotic matter? Physics professor Anna Soter and her team at ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer ...

15 Sep 2026

With little in the way of significant discoveries since 2012, there have been mutterings that particle physics is at a dead end. However, new dark matter results suggest an exciting new way to hunt fo ...

09 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

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

15 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

Deep beneath the surface at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, researchers are exploring a frontier of physics that has long ...

15 Sep 2026