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

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The mass of the W boson particle has been found by the Large Hadron Collider to be exactly what ...

Well, this is one of the more interesting games we’ve seen in a while. It’s called Particle Hearts—a third-person adventure title developed by Underwater Fire and published by First Break Labs. What ...

LONDON — Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the ...

The device is small enough to fit on a coin. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists recently fired up the world's smallest ...

Welcome to the first Physics World Particle & Nuclear Briefing bringing you the best of our recent coverage in these two areas, including – of course – plenty on CERN, which is celebrating its 70th ...

Former UCSC graduate student Jessica Metcalfe takes a rest on the temporary catwalk inside the ATLAS cryostat at CERN, where she was installing cables to be connected to the detector’s inner tracker.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Scientists who stunned the world with their discovery of a particle that may be the basic building block of the universe now are on the lookout for a hitherto unseen world of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The giant Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at the LHC. The different rings of detectors, arranged ...