Faster-than-light particles have spent decades in physics as both temptation and warning. They offered a way to test the limits of Einstein’s relativity, but they also seemed to wreck the basic order ...

06 Jun 2026

Mark Thomson has taken the reins at CERN just as particle physics confronts some of its deepest unknowns – and faces hard choices about what comes next ...

03 Jun 2026

Daniel Whiteson reflects on a career in particle physics at ATLAS, and on building a parallel path in science communication through books, podcasts and children’s television.

02 Jun 2026

Lord Shiva's Nataraja form, symbolizing cosmic energy and the rhythm of existence, is mirrored in the principles of quantum physics. A bronze statue of Nataraja at CERN highlights the profound ...

05 Jun 2026

University of Tennessee, Knoxville physicists and their colleagues have made critical measurements of the lifetime and decay energy of tellurium-104 (Te-104), an important step in answering a ...

05 Jun 2026

For over two decades, scientists at CERN observed unexplained particle losses in their Super Proton Synchrotron. A new study has finally mapped this invisible "ghost" resonance, a phenomenon caused by ...

03 Jun 2026

Scientists measured light particles spending a negative amount of time inside a cloud of atoms, that appeared to exit the matter before even entering it.

07 Jun 2026

Space and time looked settled, at least in broad outline. Einstein’s special relativity gave physics a durable framework for describing motion, and for more than a century one boundary seemed firm: ...

03 Jun 2026

Exploring the double slit experiment and what it reveals about observation and physics.

06 Jun 2026

Physicists at Colorado State University have measured the radius of a hydrogen proton with ...

03 Jun 2026

A CSU team has measured a hydrogen proton’s radius to be 0.84 femtometers, resolving a long-standing scientific discrepancy known as the proton radius puzzle. The ultra-precise measurement further ...

01 Jun 2026

NASA’s Juno Mission has captured electrons traveling near the speed of light in Jupiter’s magnetic environment, providing unprecedented evidence of how high-energy particles, including cosmic rays, ...

04 Jun 2026