How do particle colliders work?
As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing them into tiny targets.
This Giant Subterranean Neutrino Detector Is Taking On the Mysteries of Physics
Located in China, Juno is a 17-country collaboration that will try to detect neutrinos and antineutrinos to learn more about their mass.
The Mysterious Origins of the Most Energetic Neutrino Ever Detected
Two years ago, Earth was hit by the most energetic neutrino in history. Scientists thought it might be a measurement error, but a new study has confirmed this “ghost particle” was real.
Quantum physics protects videos from prying eyes and tampering
Today's encryption works well, until tomorrow's quantum computers arrive.
New discovery at CERN could hint at why our universe is made up of matter and not antimatter
A new finding at CERN on the French-Swiss border brings us closer to answering why matter dominates over its opposite, antimatter.
Why scientists are so excited about the highest-energy ‘ghost particle’ ever seen
Scientists have found a neutrino that could come from a gamma-ray burst, an active black hole or a collision between a cosmic ray and photons in the cosmic microwave background.
Mystery honeycombs in rock may be created by water and salt
Many rocks are covered with circular hollows that look like honeycomb, and now we may finally understand how these strange formations come into existence
Why Hawking’s PhD thesis is now an internet-breaking inspiration
Millions rushed to freely access Stephen Hawking's early musings when they went online. More of the same would help ignite young minds everywhere, says Geraint Lewis
Cosmic rays have revealed a new chamber in Egypt’s Great Pyramid
Particles from outer space have helped scientists uncover a hidden chamber within Egypt’s most famous pyramid, the first such finding in over a century
Fast radio bursts may be dark matter ‘stars’ hitting black holes
The mysterious FRBs we’ve been tracking for a decade could be created by clumps of dark matter particles dancing along the edges of black holes