On July 4, 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland announced with great fanfare that they had ...

String theory attempts to unify all forces and particles in the universe using vibrating strings. It aims to explain the Standard Model of particle physics, which is incomplete. String theory predicts ...

UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...

Before atomic elements came together, less than a second after the Big Bang, if particles condensed into halos of matter, ...

Physicists have shown that particles produced in collimated sprays called jets retain information about their origins in subatomic particle smashups. Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE ...

Physicists have long-suspected that the building blocks of protons experienced quantum entanglement. Now, researchers have the first direct evidence — after using a trick to infer subatomic particles' ...

In the home, the lab and the factory, electric fields control technologies such as Kindle displays, medical diagnostic tests ...

Related: 'Beauty' particle discovered at world's largest atom smasher could unlock new physics That means that collisions at powerful particle accelerators need to rip only three protons from lead ...