neutrinos

Nearly 14 billion years ago, a universe appeared in an unthinkably high-energy blast. Particles started to…

Particle physicists have released the results of a decade-long search, taking us a crucial step closer toward…

The next generation of atom smasher could be a 100-kilometer-round ring, costing over $10 billion, with no promise…

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider triumphantly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson back in the summer…

An experiment nearly two decades in the making has finally unveiled its measurements of the mass of the universe’s…

It’s nearly May, and you know what that means: Game of Thrones will be ending, Divination Bot will soon return to…

This past week, scientists announced that they’d made an incredible physics observation using a vat of liquid xenon.…

A detector designed to hunt for dark matter has made a particle physics observation that will hopefully help…

Construction began last week on a new particle accelerator at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. The…

Scientists have to use some roundabout methods to weigh the Earth and measure what’s inside it—typically, they’ve…

Astronomers have proposed a truly enormous telescope consisting of 200,000 radio receivers around the world, which…

An enormous weather balloon in Antarctica spotted what looked like a high-energy particle from outer space striking…

Today, scientists made a huge announcement: Telescopes around the world recorded a source of mysterious,…

Every so often, protons and even entire atomic nuclei strike the Earth with extremely high energies—much higher than…

Neutrinos are ghostly, mysterious shape-shifters. New evidence bolsters the existence of an even ghostlier,…

Can we take a minute to appreciate just how weird neutrinos are? The second most abundant known particle in the…

When it comes to understanding the universe, a crucial property of stuff, whatever that stuff might be, is its mass.…

If we’re ever going to truly understand how our Universe works, we’ll need to take lots of different measurements,…

Physicists make a lot of statements about stuff they hope will happen, but might not happen in their lifetimes. One…

Particle physics is rarely a cheap-and-easy endeavor. Just think about the Large Hadron Collider, buried deep…