The resting mass of ghostly neutrinos is one of the most sought-after quantities in particle physics that scientists are one step closer to accurately determining, thanks to a new experiment led by ...

23 Apr 2024

Recent experimental endeavors under the guidance of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Germany have taken us closer to deciphering the elusive true mass of neutrinos, the enigmatic ...

23 Apr 2024

The discovery and ongoing research into neutrinos have significantly altered the foundational concepts of particle physics, highlighting the particles' mass and challenging the accuracy of the ...

19 Apr 2024

A giant of particle physics, Peter Wade Higgs, passed away at his home in Edinburgh on April 8 2024, having lived to 94 years. His unparalleled legacy, epitomised by the discovery of the Higgs boson, ...

19 Apr 2024

The Standard Model of Particle Physics is scientists' best understanding of the forces that describe how subatomic particles interact. The Standard Model encompasses four forces: the strong nuclear ...

22 Apr 2024

Symmetry will explore the ways scientists are using artificial intelligence to advance particle physics and astrophysics—in a series of articles written and illustrated entirely by humans.

17 Apr 2024

What is the mass of a neutrino at rest? This is one of the big unanswered questions in physics. Neutrinos play a central role in nature. A team led by Klaus Blaum, Director at the Max Planck Institute ...

19 Apr 2024

Earth Observation (EO) and particle physics research have more in common than you might think. In both environments, whether capturing fleeting particle collisions or detecting transient traces of ...

22 Apr 2024

By precisely measuring the mass of neutrinos — ghostly particles that stream through your body by the billions each second — physicists could find some glaring holes in the Standard Model of particle ...

19 Apr 2024

Peter Higgs, pivotal in the discovery of the "God Particle," has died at the age of 94. His groundbreaking work, for which he received a Nobel Prize, laid the foundation for understanding the universe ...

17 Apr 2024

Learn more about the Large Hadron Collider at CERN what does it when colliding particles at high speeds to discover the inner workings ...

22 Apr 2024

With the nature of the universe's two most elusive components up for debate, physicists have proposed a radical idea: Invisible particles called tachyons, which break causality and move faster than ...

17 Apr 2024