New subatomic particle discovery may challenge the Standard Model and explain why matter dominates over antimatter in the universe. The post New Subatomic Particle Discovery Could Rewrite Physics ...

08 May 2025

The world's largest particle collider produces roughly 89,000 gold nuclei every second, all from smashing lead atoms together at near-light-speed.

09 May 2025

For centuries, alchemists have dreamed of turning lead into gold. At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), they’ve finally managed to do it. There were no spells and no magic elixirs. It was just ...

09 May 2025

Physicists from the University of Aalto in Finland have proposed a new view of gravity, which they say is compatible with the Standard Model elementar ...

08 May 2025

CERN's ALICE experiment turned lead into gold—briefly—reviving alchemists' old dreams with modern nuclear physics.

09 May 2025

From the powdered wings of a butterfly to the icy spines of a snowflake, symmetry is a common feature in nature. This often even holds true down to the smallest bits of matter, which helps nuclear ...

09 May 2025

The Breakthrough Prizes are prestigious awards given annually in the fields of Physics, Life Sciences, and Mathematics to recognise groundbreaking achievements in science.

06 May 2025

Buried deep in the ice in the Antarctic are "eyes" that can see elementary particles called neutrinos, and what they've observed is puzzling scientists: a remarkably strong neutrino signal accompanied ...

08 May 2025

When an ordinary beam of neutrons strikes the team’s silicon grating, the millions of scored lines on the grating convert the neutrons into an Airy beam with a wavefront that travels along a parabolic ...

09 May 2025

This year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. Proclaimed by the UN, it celebrates the centenary of the development of the theory of quantum mechanics and is being marked by ...

08 May 2025

Scientists have potentially solved what many consider physics' most challenging problem – reconciling Einstein's theory of gravity with quantum mechanics, without adding any new parameters to physics.

07 May 2025

Gravity is everywhere: pulling at your feet, holding satellites in orbit, and making the Earth spin around the sun. Yet, for all its familiarity, gravity ...

09 May 2025