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

A 'boom' of light that appears when a particle exceeds the speed of light set by a medium could, in other contexts, signal a ...

Physicists are learning to carve laser beams into intricate shapes that can grab hold of electrons and push them with a ...

Scientists at Fermilab’s MicroBooNE experiment have ruled out the existence of the elusive sterile neutrino, a particle ...

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a ...

China's Circular Electron Positron Collider was meant to pick up where the Large Hadron Collider left off, but the project ...

Using the Super Proton Synchrotron, the team created beams of electron-positron pairs and passed them through a meter-long region of plasma. This setup served as a scaled laboratory version of a ...

Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

Physicists are exploring whether hidden dimensions and the shape of space could help explain why fundamental particles have ...

A fatty particle can clog arteries just as surely as cholesterol but often goes undetected, striking seemingly healthy people ...

In the future, quantum computers are anticipated to solve problems once thought unsolvable, from predicting the course of ...