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Particle Physics
The quantum world is one in which rules that are completely foreign to our everyday experience dictate bizarre behavior.
You are trapped in time. You never live in the world as it is but only as you experience it as it was.
IceCube just found an active galaxy in the nearby Universe, 47 million light-years away, through its neutrino emissions: a cosmic first.
Quantum entanglement may remain spooky, but it has a very practical side.
Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so... solid?
One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.
Before we discovered gravitational waves, multi-messenger astronomy got its start with light and particles arriving from the same event.
From the tiniest subatomic scales to the grandest cosmic ones, solving any of these puzzles could unlock our understanding of the Universe.
No matter how good our measurement devices get, certain quantum properties always possess an inherent uncertainty. Can we figure out why?
In our common experience, you can't get something for nothing. In the quantum realm, something really can emerge from nothing.
At a fundamental level, only a few particles and forces govern all of reality. How do their combinations create human consciousness?
If your computer crashes, it might be due to a star that exploded somewhere in the Universe millions of years ago.
Quantum mechanics forces us to toss out the old, reliable ways in which we make sense of our everyday reality.
Magnetic monopoles began as a mere theoretical curiosity. They might hold the key to understanding so much more.
Lasers are all around you. This ubiquitous technology came from our understanding of quantum physics.
Searching for dark matter, the XENON collaboration found absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Here's why that's an extraordinary feat.
There's a speed limit to the Universe: the speed of light in a vacuum. Want to beat the speed of light? Try going through a medium!
Scientists have found three new examples of a very exotic form of matter made of quarks. They can yield insights into the early Universe.
The neutrino is the most ghostly, rarely-interacting particle in all the Standard Model. How well can we truly make "beams" out of them?
The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?
On July 4, we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the discovery of the Higgs boson, the missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics.
Experiments cannot confirm what theory predicts about neutrinos. And particle physicists have no idea why.
Giant particle accelerators aren't a waste of money. They are essential for understanding the Universe.
The Standard Model of elementary particles has three nearly identical copies of particles: generations. And nobody knows why.
A next-generation LHC++ could cost $100 billion. Here's why such a machine could end up being a massive waste of money.
Are physicists about to decode a mysterious field of science that could have huge implications for your health?
John Templeton Foundation
The Standard Model may or may not be in trouble, but particle physics definitely needs saving. Here's what the new LHC can do.
Could we finally detect the elusive Unruh effect?