With little in the way of significant discoveries since 2012, there have been mutterings that particle physics is at a dead end. However, new dark matter results suggest an exciting new way to hunt fo ...

09 Sep 2026

For decades, physicists have searched for dark matter, the invisible substance thought to make up roughly 85% of all matter in the universe. Although its gravitational influence shapes galaxies and ...

09 Sep 2026

Dr. Yannick Ulrich received a €1.5M ERC grant to refine theoretical tools for experiments at CERN, improving precision in particle physics simulations.

03 Sep 2026

In 2022, researchers detected a very odd photon from an enormous gamma ray burst that should have been destroyed on its way to Earth ...

08 Sep 2026

A single flash of light recorded nearly a mile beneath South Dakota has left physicists both excited and stumped. The event, caught by the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) dark matter detector, is being described by ...

03 Sep 2026

Modern physics can predict the behavior of particles with stunning accuracy, yet some of its biggest calculations fail on an almost unimaginable scale. One theory misses the universe’s vacuum energy ...

04 Sep 2026

Material properties such as sound insulation, resistance to extreme heat and thermal expansion originate from how the zillions of microscopic building blocks (nuclei and electrons) interact at ...

09 Sep 2026

From a small town in Kerala to the frontiers of physics, Prof. E.C.G. Sudarshan’s lifelong pursuit of knowledge reshaped our understanding of light and quantum theory while maintaining strong Indian ...

03 Sep 2026

Sarah Demers, chair of the physics department at Yale University, sees the potential for large language models to both help and harm her field.

03 Sep 2026

It could have an entirely run-of-the-mill particle crashing into another ordinary particle. But physicists announced September 1 that there is a 99.5 percent chance that the collision was caused by ...

03 Sep 2026

Neutron imaging analysis by a particle physicist has revealed the cause of death of Scotty, the largest known Tyrannosaurus rex specimen.

06 Sep 2026