Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

It's true. Muons - you know, those subatomic particles, also known as fat electrons - wobble faster than we suspected. By we, of course, I mean they - the particle physicists obsessed with things like ...

An old puzzle in particle physics has been solved: How can quantum field theories be best formulated on a lattice to ...

The Standard Model of particle physics—the best, most thoroughly vetted description of reality scientists have ever devised—appears to have fended off yet another threat to its reign. The muon is the ...

Exploring Lepton Flavor ViolationLed by researchers from Sun Yat-sen University, the Institute of Modern Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A powerful new particle accelerator that could be set up at Fermilab, a telescope to observe the oldest light in the universe, and research to learn more about mysteries such as dark ...

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

Here are 11 major updates that happened this year in the field of particle physics. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The past year ...

"I am personally excited to have found a new mystery in science to solve." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Over the years, ...

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