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

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

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, constantly strike ...

14 Sep 2026

About the Particles Hitting Earth For the first time, physicists have recreated a key collision behind cosmic-ray showers using oxygen and protons inside CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, giving ...

15 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

Something spooky has been spotted in CERN's Large Hadron Collider. In the cascade of debris that sprays out from high-energy collisions in the world's most powerful particle collider, physicists have ...

14 Sep 2026

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

15 Sep 2026

Physicists at CERN have directly measured proton-oxygen collisions at 9. 62 TeV per nucleon pair, closely recreating an important type of interaction that occurs when extremely energetic cosmic rays ...

15 Sep 2026

After conducting what is likely the largest survey of its kind, researchers reported that a vast majority of physicists suspect the big bang doesn’t necessarily mark the beginning of time. And as ...

15 Sep 2026