“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

The existence of the Higgs boson completes the standard model of particle physics. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. On April 8, ...

As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing them into tiny targets.

Plasma is a state of matter that emerges when a gas is heated to sufficiently high temperatures, prompting some electrons to ...

Throughout school and in any physics class, students are told that nothing travels faster than the speed of light. However, that statement might no longer be true because of the neutrino—the particle ...

For the past half century or so, a theory known by the understated name of the Standard Model has dominated the field of particle physics. This theory provides us with a detailed description of the 17 ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A powerful new particle accelerator that could be set up at Fermilab, a telescope to observe the oldest light in the universe, and research to learn more about mysteries such as dark ...

Knowable Magazine reports that neutrinos may help explain the universe's missing antimatter, shedding light on ...

The Large Hadron Collider is the world's biggest particle accelerator. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Large Hadron Collider ...

The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving ...

Since the beginning, Star Trek has introduced audiences to mind-bending concepts that defy the known realities. Among these cosmic mysteries is the Omega particle. This strange substance haunts the ...

An artist's concept of multiple types of subatomic particles. Forget about turtles; for all practical purposes, it’s really particles all the way down. Consider the seemingly simple matter of their ...