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

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

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

Scientists used a neural network, a type of brain-inspired machine learning algorithm, to sift through large volumes of particle collision data. Particle physicists are tasked with mining this massive ...

15 Apr 2024

The search for the Holy Grail of particle physics, as the Higgs search came to be known, took more than three decades and billions of dollars ...

13 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

The findings suggest that despite normally annihilating each other, the new type of particle may be a brief combination of a proton and an antiproton.

15 Apr 2024

It is in the disagreements that interrupt plausible explanations of the world that homoeopathy departs from science ...

18 Apr 2024

While saying he was “happy” to do an interview with Physics World, he insisted with trademark modesty that “Dr Durrani should be warned that I am a complete layman with regard to the LHC experiments”.

18 Apr 2024

The BESIII collaboration's recent discovery of an anomalous decay pattern points to the possible existence of a proton-antiproton bound state, supported by evidence from historical and recent ...

17 Apr 2024

A celebration of the opening of CERN Science Gateway, a new flagship centre for science education and outreach.

12 Apr 2024