A tiny discrepancy in particle physics has loomed for decades as an exciting possible crack in one of science's most ...

A major obstacle in calculating the muon’s behavior is the strong force, the most powerful of the four fundamental forces, along with gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak force. It binds quarks ...

Some innovations in physics come from entirely new technologies, others from fresh theoretical insights. Others still take ...

Chien was noted for his research in high energy physics, his dedication to his students, and for helping Johns Hopkins become ...

A Cornell University physicist is among an international group of researchers recognized with one of science’s most ...

For a few years, one of particle physics’ most unsettling numbers seemed to be pointing somewhere strange. The trouble ...

Researchers have, for the first time, described the properties of one-dimensional anyons and outlined how these particles can be observed using existing experimental setups.

Physicists have taken a major step toward using AI not just to analyze data, but to uncover entirely new laws of nature. By ...

A major physics experiment has uncovered evidence for a strange new form of matter, where a fleeting particle gets trapped ...

Plasma, the fourth state of matter, consists of a gas in which electrons are no longer bound to atoms, which allows ...

Physicists love the Higgs boson, but they hate the God particle. The elusive Higgs particle, which scientists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator announced Tuesday (Dec. 13) that ...