In the very early Universe, practically all particles were massless. Then the Higgs symmetry broke, and suddenly everything was different.
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With new W-boson, top quark, and Higgs boson measurements, the LHC contradicts earlier Fermilab results. The Standard Model still holds.
In our Universe, matter is made of particles, while antimatter is made of antiparticles. But sometimes, the physical lines get real blurry.
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There’s a quantum limit to how precisely anything can be measured. By squeezing light, LIGO has now surpassed all previous limitations.
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful particle accelerator ever. To go even further, we’ll have to overcome something big.
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If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at higher energies, something even grander happens?
Predicted way back in the 1960s, the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 completed the Standard Model. Here’s why it remains fascinating.
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At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?
Google’s “Genie” could be used to create a wide range of interactive environments for more than just games.
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In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, matter and antimatter were (almost) balanced. After a brief while, matter won out. Here’s how.
Symmetries aren’t just about folding or rotating a piece of paper, but have a profound array of applications when it comes to physics.
What would it take to create a truly intelligent microbot, one that can operate independently?
For decades, theorists have been cooking up “theories of everything” to explain our Universe. Are all of them completely off-track?
Almost 100 years ago, an asymmetric pathology led Dirac to postulate the positron. A similar pathology could lead us to supersymmetry.
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It’s 2024, and we still only know of the fundamental particles of the Standard Model: nothing more. But these 8 unanswered questions remain.
Fermilab’s TeVatron just released the best mass measurement of the W-boson, ever. Here’s what doesn’t add up.
NASA’s minivan-sized drone is scheduled to search for signs of life on Titan in 2034.
An excerpt from “Memory,” a primer on human memory, its workings, feats, and flaws, by two leading psychological researchers.
In general relativity, matter and energy curve spacetime, which we experience as gravity. Why can’t there be an “antigravity” force?
From inside our Solar System, zodiacal light prevents us from seeing true darkness. From billions of miles away, New Horizons finally can.
Music is part of the human experience, which is why some philosophers have written about it. Some had wacky ideas.
The zero-point energy of empty space is not zero. Even with all the physics we know, we have no idea how to calculate what it ought to be.