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The Large Hadron Collider is going to be shut down — not permanently, but for a pretty long time — and the famous atom ...

An analysis of several experiments aimed at detecting the mysterious neutrino has identified a hint of a crack in the ...

Brian Cox once toured as a keyboardist in major rock and pop bands. Now he’s a particle physicist on a new world tour with a ...

Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something the universe simply hands to particles, a property encoded in ...

A team of physicists has coaxed a single, photon-like particle into behaving as if it lives in 37 different quantum ...

New results from the MicroBooNE experiment rule out the existence of a sterile neutrino, reshaping how scientists think about ...

Physicists are exploring whether hidden dimensions and the shape of space could help explain why fundamental particles have ...

Physicists love the Higgs boson, but they hate the God particle. The elusive Higgs particle, which scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator announced Tuesday (Dec. 13) that ...

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

Physicists are thrilled at today's (July 4) announcement of the discovery of a new elementary particle that is likely the Higgs boson, an elusive particle thought to give all other matter its mass.