Several massive multimillion dollar experiments should soon reveal more about the nature of these ghostly particles ...

Particle physics is using ever more interdisciplinary means to seek ever more exotic phenomena, Robert P Crease finds, but ...

Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have confirmed the existence of a massless particle, long theorized by physicist David Pines’ theory. This particle, known as the “demon,” ...

The NA62 Collaboration has dramatically reduced the uncertainty in its measurement of an extremely rare particle decay, in ...

US researchers have successfully accelerated and stored the first proton beams inside a specialized ...

UK-built detector parts from STFC’s Daresbury Laboratory arrive at Fermilab for DUNE, a major international neutrino ...

Restricting a strange class of particles known as anyons to one dimension could force them into adopting one of two new forms ...

Anna Behrend is a self-taught data journalist who has found in data-driven reporting and visualization a way to combine her academic background in science with her creative interests.

Physicists have discovered a surprising new “Island of Inversion” in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number ...

Particle therapy experts gathered in London to discuss the transformative potential of laser-driven proton and ion beams ...

We all know that stars radiate light and much more. But radiation belts can also surround many other celestial bodies, such as planets. These belts do not generate particles themselves—the belts ...

When the Eiffel Tower opened for the 1889 Exposition Universelle, its girders bore in gold lettering the names of scientists whom Gustave Eiffel said had honoured France since 1789.