Peter Higgs, the Nobel Prize-winning British theoretical physicist celebrated for his pioneering prediction of the Higgs boson, has passed away at the age of 94. Higgs died peacefully at his home in ...

26 Apr 2024

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

The late physicist Joseph Polchinski once said the existence of magnetic monopoles is "one of the safest bets that one can make about physics not yet seen." In its quest for these particles, which ...

26 Apr 2024

In a new study published inNature Physics, scientists at the MAJORANA Collaboration have tested the stringency of charge conservation and Pauli's exclusion principles using underground detectors.

24 Apr 2024

Physicists have proposed modifications to the infamous Schrödinger's cat paradox that could help explain why quantum particles can exist in more than one state simultaneously, while large objects ...

26 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

A ghost is haunting our universe. This has been known in astronomy and cosmology for decades. Observations suggest that about 85% of all the matter in the universe is mysterious and invisible. These ...

25 Apr 2024

Tau neutrinos are notoriously difficult to spot in detectors like IceCube. But researchers have managed to isolate 7 candidates.

25 Apr 2024

Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into sets of elementary particles — though not yet those of our universe.

24 Apr 2024

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24 Apr 2024

The Large Hadron Collider is testing entanglement in a whole new energy range, probing the meaning of quantum theory – and the possibility that an even stranger reality lies beneath ...

25 Apr 2024