The phrase “lightning in a bottle” is usually used as a metaphor for something rare or impossible to reproduce. In a recent ...

Researchers from TUM, working at CERN, have made a groundbreaking discovery that reveals how deuterons are formed. Another long-standing question in particle physics has been answered. Scientists ...

Household gadgets have a way of sounding scarier than they are once someone attaches a giant number to them. The claim that a toaster quietly sheds 1.73 trillion particles every minute, even when it ...

Both boson stars and Q-balls, which live under the more general heading of exotic astrophysical dark objects (EADOs), are ...

After a decade of painstaking measurements, scientists have delivered a major plot twist in particle physics: a ...

Xavier Niel, the French tech billionaire, and John Elkann, the chairperson of Ferrari, have also pledged money to the project ...

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A new measurement by CERN’s ATLAS Collaboration has strengthened evidence that the masses of fundamental particles originate through their interaction with the Higgs field. Building on earlier results ...

A new theory proposes that the universe’s fundamental forces and particle properties may arise from the geometry of hidden ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

It has been thought of as many things: a pointlike object, an excitation of a field, a speck of pure math that has cut into reality. But never has physicists’ conception of a particle changed more ...