Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have uncovered new hints that certain particle decays may not behave as the Standard Model predicts.

12 May 2026

For nearly a hundred years, every known particle in the universe belonged to one of two camps. Bosons, like photons, can crowd into the same quantum state without limit. Fermions, like electrons, ...

10 May 2026

For nearly a century, every particle in the quantum world has fallen into one of two camps. Bosons, like photons, happily crowd together in the same quantum state, which is why lasers work. Fermions, ...

11 May 2026

Dark matter particles could be mediators of the interaction between electrons and atomic nuclei, as shown by a study conducted by junior group leader, Dr. Konstantin Gaul, Dr. Lei Cong, and Professor ...

11 May 2026

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

Programmable optical particle transport based on structured light plays a crucial role in microscale manipulation. Scientists in China have developed a multi-prior physics-enhanced neural network ...

08 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

A new study suggests that a mirror universe may have formed alongside ours in the Big Bang, preserving laws of physics that appear to be violated locally. The authors found that the same ...

08 May 2026

The rules governing gravity and other laws of nature seem like eternal truths, but cosmologist João Magueijo has always questioned their origins. Now, he has a bold new proposal ...

11 May 2026

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

07 May 2026