China's building the world's largest "ghost particle" detector thousands of meters below the South China Sea. What is a ghost particle and why would it need to be detected? China is building an ...

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN discovered the particle in 2012. Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, responsible for one of the greatest scientific discoveries in the last ...

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Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics recognized Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger for their groundbreaking experimental work confirming quantum entanglement, a phenomenon where the state of ...

THE world’s most powerful particle accelerator is firing up its engines once again this week following an extended hiatus. After more than three years of upgrade and maintenance work, the Large Hadron ...

Fresh from their historic discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, researchers using CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the main particle accelerator at the European particle-physics laboratory near ...

Scientists just outside Chicago have found that the mass of a sub-atomic particle is not what it should be. The measurement is the first conclusive experimental result that is at odds with one of the ...

In their search for more flavors of Higgs bosons, a team of researchers at CERN stumbled across what could be evidence of the smallest matter-antimatter particle ever. The hypothetical particle, known ...

Forget about turtles; for all practical purposes, it’s really particles all the way down. Consider the seemingly simple matter of their size, the very thing that makes them so alien. We’re typically ...