An analysis of several experiments aimed at detecting the mysterious neutrino has identified a hint of a crack in the ...

Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something the universe simply hands to particles, a property encoded in ...

The particle in question, known as a sterile neutrino, was supposed to only interact with gravity and have zero interactions ...

Noncommutative geometry offers a radical reformulation of traditional geometrical concepts by replacing the classical notion of a manifold with a noncommutative algebra of coordinates. This approach ...

The masses of fundamental particles such as the Z and W bosons could have arisen from the twisted geometry of hidden ...

The standard model of particle physics is often illustrated as a simple grid showing the 17 basic particles (shown above). But an alternative way of visualising it reveals the complex rules that ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

Red lines show the disintegration of a B-sub-s into two muons in the CMS camera at the Large Hadron Collider. Yello, green and blue are used to denote particles other than muons. Purdue University ...

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

On Monday, the Society of Physics Students, or SPS, welcomed Helen Quinn — a renowned particle physicist — to deliver the Howard L. Schultz Sr. Price Lecture. During the talk, Quinn spoke on her ...

Physicists at the world's largest particle accelerator have made a first-of-its-kind discovery about antimatter that could help solve one of the universe's biggest mysteries. The discovery — made at ...