Aug 2021
In a demonstration of Einstein’s E=mc2, collisions of light yielded electrons and positrons
Colliding photons were spotted making matter. But are the photons ‘real’?
Jun 2019
The particles could be spotted when they slam into electrons or atomic nuclei in the crystals
Diamond detectors could aid the search for dark matter
Jul 2023
The result deepens the mystery behind why there's more matter than antimatter in the universe
Electrons are extremely round, a new measurement confirms
Mar 2019
In an odd twist, rarer up quarks add more angular momentum than more plentiful down quarks
How a proton gets its spin is surprisingly complicated
May 2021
A proof-of-concept experiment paves the way for a larger detector in 2022
In a first, neutrinos were caught interacting at the Large Hadron Collider
Mar 2023
The corridor’s purpose is still unclear
Muons unveiled new details about a void in Egypt’s Great Pyramid
Apr 2021
Superchilled antiatoms offer a new way to test symmetry and Einstein's theory of gravity
Newly made laser-cooled antimatter could test foundations of modern physics
Jul 2020
Looping the structures around one another strengthens the case that anyons really exist
Physicists have ‘braided’ strange quasiparticles called anyons
Mar 2020
If they exist, the subatomic particles could be the source of the universe’s elusive mass
Physicists have narrowed the mass range for hypothetical dark matter axions
Apr 2019
It takes 1 trillion times the age of the universe for a xenon-124 sample to shrink by half
This is the slowest radioactive decay ever spotted