A pocket-sized, roughly $100 detector can reveal the invisible stream of cosmic particles constantly passing through Earth and even through our bodies. What began as a student physics project is now ...

16 Sep 2026

Brian Cox warns UK physics faces a crisis due to funding cuts, specifically the withdrawal of £45 million from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.

22 Sep 2026

Dark matter is one of the oldest open problems in physics. It makes up most of the matter in the universe and shapes how galaxies form and move, yet no one has ever directly detected it. Physicists ...

17 Sep 2026

To the J-PARC Open HouseI went to the open house at J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex) in Tokai Village, Ibaraki Prefecture.This is an experimental facility where protons are accelerat ...

21 Sep 2026

Just as understanding the properties of elementary particles does not explain the physical properties of matter composed of atoms and molecules, this succinctly expresses that the quantity leads to a ...

19 Sep 2026

Following the possible recent detection of a dark matter particle, researchers have already come up with a veritable cornucopia of possible models for what sort of particle it might have been ...

18 Sep 2026

Physicists have detected strong evidence that heavy, fleeting Z bosons can become quantum entangled during Higgs boson decays at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The result shows that Einstein’s “spooky ...

19 Sep 2026

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have extended the search for evidence of microscopic black holes produced at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

18 Sep 2026