With little in the way of significant discoveries since 2012, there have been mutterings that particle physics is at a dead end. However, new dark matter results suggest an exciting new way to hunt fo ...

09 Sep 2026

The Secret Archives of Particle Physics Down in the basement of my own lab—the Laboratory of Nuclear and High-Energy Physics (LPNHE, CNRS and Sorbonne University, Paris)—roughly sixty reels of ...

10 Sep 2026

While the effective interaction between the particles appears to break Newton’s third law, it doesn’t because there is no violation of momentum conservation, explains Sumino: momentum is transferred ...

11 Sep 2026

Twist on classic Brownian motion experiment could help test bounds of quantum theory and aid search for new particles ...

10 Sep 2026

For decades, physicists have searched for dark matter, the invisible substance thought to make up roughly 85% of all matter in the universe. Although its gravitational influence shapes galaxies and ...

09 Sep 2026

Unconventional quantum theories may imply that time itself has a tiny fundamental uncertainty, placing an ultimate limit on how precisely any clock could measure it. The effect is far beyond current ...

10 Sep 2026

In 2022, researchers detected a very odd photon from an enormous gamma ray burst that should have been destroyed on its way to Earth ...

08 Sep 2026

The joint BepiColombo mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is settling into orbit around Mercury after an eight-year journey. In early September ...

10 Sep 2026

A GRB 221009A photon may have crossed the cosmos when standard models predict it should have disappeared along the way. Its extraordinary energy makes that apparent survival difficult to explain. Now, ...

10 Sep 2026

Modern physics can predict the behavior of particles with stunning accuracy, yet some of its biggest calculations fail on an almost unimaginable scale. One theory misses the universe’s vacuum energy ...

04 Sep 2026