Muons are a key subatomic particle in the discovery of new physics, but after particle collision, they’re difficult to track.

Texas A&M University professor Peter McIntyre and his colleagues want to build a particle accelerator around the rim of the Gulf of Mexico in order to discover the most fundamental building blocks of ...

Recent findings from research we have been carrying out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern in Geneva suggest that we might be closing in on signs of undiscovered physics. If confirmed, these ...

Physicists have determined the mass of the W boson with the highest precision yet by analysing more than a billion proton ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since inaugural operations began in 2008, the LHC has allowed researchers to probe some of the universe’s most profound and ...

Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles – the Standard Model – must be incomplete, ...

After a three-year hiatus for repairs and upgrades, the Large Hadron Collider operated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is back online. Scientists operating the world’s largest ...

For centuries, great thinkers of the Greco-Roman, Islamic, Medieval, and even early Enlightenment worlds investigated the possibilities of alchemy—the process of transforming base metals (i.e. lead) ...