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

Unlike typical AI research, where a model predicts outcomes or cleans up data, researchers at Emory University in Atlanta did something unusual. They trained a neural network to discover new physics.

For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Esra Barlas Yücel, a researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, about Fermilab's most precise measurements of the muon particle's magnetic wobble. It's ...

The W boson is heftier than anyone expected. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An ultraprecise measurement of the mass of a ...

Two ghostlike particles, neutrinos and photons, are emerging as unlikely combatants in a quiet revolution in physics. New ...

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

A subatomic particle called the muon is wobbling far more than leading physics models can explain. Its unusual behavior could be evidence of a fifth force of nature or a new dimension. Scientists ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. The Large Hadron Collider is the most powerful particle accelerator ...

Harald Fox receives funding from UKRI. Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson, has died aged 94. He was always a modest man, especially when considering that ...

Harry Cliff is employed by the University of Cambridge, is a member of the LHCb collaboration and receives funding from STFC. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) sparked worldwide excitement in March as ...