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

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

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

Deep beneath the Earth’s surface, an experiment designed to find the universe’s most elusive particles has recorded something unexpected. Researchers are now studying the signal and what it could ...

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 i ...

15 Sep 2026

Atlas Technologies helps Oxford physicists track quantum entanglement in Z bosons at the Large Hadron Collider.

15 Sep 2026