Physicists may have just cracked open a hidden side of the quantum world. For decades, every known particle was thought to ...

A new study, published in the journal Physical Review Letters, suggests that some of the highest-energy cosmic rays could ...

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Scientists have pulled off a mind-bending quantum experiment that sounds almost impossible: they showed that tiny metal ...

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

Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: When you drill down into the very fabric of reality—where elementary particles make up the matter that is you and me and everything around us in three ...

Physicists are rethinking how to detect elusive particles like neutrinos by combining existing technologies in unconventional ways.

If you’re superstitious, a black cat in your path is bad luck, even if you keep your distance. Likewise, in quantum physics, particles can feel the influence of magnetic fields that they never come ...

ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS do not respond well to highly charged particles. Accelerated to near the speed of light by Earth’s magnetic field, such particles pack enough kinetic energy to cause damage. History ...

About 1.2 miles beneath Antarctica, an underground observatory is hunting for "ghost particles." What it finds could reveal the unseen heart of a distant galaxy. Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth has shut down another instrument in the hopes of buying time for an upgrade that could boost the aging probe’s impressive lifespan.