Particles

Scientists Make Unprecedented Measurement of Electrons

Scientists have made an unprecedented close examination of the electron, providing fascinating new insights into the nature of particles, energy, and forces at infinitesimally small scales.

Newsweek

Three New Physics Experiments Could Revamp the Standard Model

Physicists build giant machines to study tiny particles.

Science News

After Years of Effort, Physicists Spot Higgs Boson Decaying in Most Ordinary Way

Physicists have spotted the Higgs decaying into a particle called a bottom quark and its antimatter counterpart, an antibottom quark.

Science

Quantum Chicken-or-Egg Experiment Blurs the Distinction Between Before and After

A new experiment shows that when fiddling with a photon, it can be impossible to say in which order two events occur, obliterating our common sense notion of before and after and, potentially, muddying the concept of causality.

Science

Is Gravity Quantum?

The ongoing search for the graviton — the proposed fundamental particle carrying gravitational force — is a crucial step in physicists’ long journey toward a theory of everything.

Scientific American

The Alluring Beauty of Supersymmetry

In this excerpt from Lost in Math, Sabine Hossenfelder explains how the idea of supersymmetry is just too beautiful for scientists to ignore.

Science Friday

Demon in the Details of Quantum Thermodynamics

Researchers find quantum ‘Maxwell’s Demon’ may give up information to extract work.

Washington University in St. Louis

The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature

New findings are fueling an old suspicion that fundamental particles and forces spring from strange eight-part numbers called “octonions.”

Quanta Magazine

New Higgs Boson Discovery Could Help Solve Cosmic Puzzle

Six years after officially discovering the Higgs boson, particle physicists are announcing that they’ve spotted the Higgs in another way.

Gizmodo

Answering the Cosmic Riddle of Existence

You exist. You shouldn’t. Stars and galaxies and planets exist. They shouldn’t.

World Science Festival

Step Aside CERN: There’s a Cheaper Way to Break Open Physics

How tabletop experiments could find evidence of new particles, offering a glimpse beyond the standard model.

Nature

At CERN, In Search Of Nature’s Building Blocks

In a world so divided by cultural and economic warfare, what happens at the European laboratory for particle physics stands out as a celebration of the best we have to offer, says Dartmouth physicist and ICE director Marcelo Gleiser.

13.7: Cosmos & Culture

The Race to Reveal Antimatter’s Secrets

In the shadow of the Large Hadron Collider, six teams are competing to answer one of the universe’s deepest existential questions.

Nature

The Experiment That Will Allow Humans to “See” Quantum Entanglement

We’ve puzzled over the nature of entanglement for almost a century. Now physicists have devised a way for us to “see” it for the first time.

Physics arXiv Blog, MIT Technology Review