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

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

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

Every second, particles zip through your body at nearly the speed of light. They rain down from a storm high in the sky, where cosmic rays, a powerful type of interstellar matter, are constantly ...

14 Sep 2026

The way in which the ghostly particles known as neutrinos can switch from one kind to another might help explain which stars explode and which collapse to form black holes, a new study finds. These ...

20 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 at the University of Oxford have helped confirm that one of the strangest phenomena in physics—quantum entanglement—occurs even among some of the heaviest and most fleeting particles ever ...

14 Sep 2026

The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, will dismantle the Large Hadron Collider, which helped discover the so-called God Particle, in order to build a more powerful particle ...

17 Sep 2026

An ATLAS event display showing the tracks left by particles produced in a proton collision. (ATLAS Collaboration/CERN) Something spooky has been spotted in CERN's Large Hadron Collider. In the cascade ...

14 Sep 2026