On July 4, 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland announced with great fanfare that they had successfully detected the Higgs boson, the manifestation of the mechanism that ...

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find ...

Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.

The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the ...

Ghost particles' can zoom through you without a trace. Scientists are getting to the bottom of this cosmic mystery ...

According to Chairman Xiao Ping, the company’s philosophy of "daring to break through, avoiding blind conformity, and ...

Julie Roche, professor of physics at Ohio University, has been named a 2025 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), ...

Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg have discovered a striking ...

New research reveals how ghost particles may break the universe’s symmetry, offering clues to why matter—and life—exist at all.

Two University of Pretoria researchers, Professors Lerothodi Leeuw and Muaaz Bhamjee, have been awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their contributions to the ATLAS ...

MIT researchers have devised a new molecular technique that lets electrons probe inside atomic nuclei, replacing massive particle accelerators with a tabletop setup. By studying radium monofluoride, ...