Maybe it has something to do with a certain Russian billionaire’s superyacht. Or maybe it’s just because they love science. Whatever the reason, the A-list is flocking to the Breakthrough awards.

06 May 2026

Theoretical physicists have proposed a new particle existing in a warped fifth dimension that could connect ordinary matter to elusive dark matter, which makes up about 85% of the universe’s mass. The ...

05 May 2026

Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles – the Standard Model – must be incomplete, because there are a host of phenomena it cannot explain, such as the ...

01 May 2026

Over the past century, we have peeled back the layers and uncovered more about the make-up of subatomic particles than ever before, culminating in 2012 with the discovery of the Higgs boson. Frank Clo ...

06 May 2026

Muons are a key subatomic particle in the discovery of new physics, but after particle collision, they’re difficult to track.

06 May 2026

Statistical principles show you don’t need a nefarious plot to explain clusters of missing scientists and lab workers ...

07 May 2026

Scientists have detected a universal energy threshold across all cosmic rays, and it may rewrite a century of astrophysics.

07 May 2026

New analyses by the IceCube observatory could help scientists understand where neutrinos form and what is producing them ...

07 May 2026