This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if nothing else, the most expensive particle of all time. It's a bit of an unfair ...

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Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that ...

An obscure theory of elementary particles proved to be key to China’s re-emergence as a scientific nation after the Cultural ...

Scientists at Fermilab’s MicroBooNE experiment have ruled out the existence of the elusive sterile neutrino, a particle ...

The particle in question, known as a sterile neutrino, was supposed to only interact with gravity and have zero interactions ...

By bringing the long-standing and opposing views of quantum mechanics together to form a single cohesive theory, a research ...

A new unified theory connects two fundamental domains of modern quantum physics: It joins two opposite views of how a single ...

Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at ...

Our existence rests on a razor‑thin imbalance in the early cosmos. When the universe was young, matter and antimatter should ...

For forty years, the “Standard Model” assumed dark matter must be cold. If it moved too fast (which would have made it hot), ...

Tiny self-propelled nanorobots use body chemistry to navigate directly to tumors and deliver cancer drugs more effectively.