Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Mark Thomson, the new head of Europe's physics laboratory CERN, voiced confidence Tuesday about raising the billions of dollars needed to build by far the world's biggest particle accelerator.

New director-general Mark Thomson discusses fundraising efforts and future priorities for Europe’s particle-physics ...

Several years ago, scientists discovered that a single microscopic particle could rock back and forth on its own under a ...

Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that ...

Far beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists are mapping a landscape that looks less like a frozen desert and more like an ...

Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though ...

Smaller than an atom, but majorly important: introducing the quark! Quarks helped make sense of particle physics, and we'll ...

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

This session will be held in person at CERN and online via Zoom. The Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences invites researchers, engineers and postdoctoral fellows ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human ...

An obscure theory of elementary particles proved to be key to China’s re-emergence as a scientific nation after the Cultural ...