Author James Riordon discusses his new book, why neutrinos are so important and how physicists are on the verge of making big discoveries about them.
In the 1970s, scientists set a new maximum speed limit for light. Fifty years later, they continue putting light through its paces.
Carlos Argüelles overcame hardship and discrimination to pursue a passion for physics.
If neutrinos behave differently from their antimatter counterparts, it could help explain why our cosmos is full of stuff.
In 1972, particle smashups hinted at the gluon, which we now know not only holds together the innards of the proton, but also makes up more than a third of its mass.
The massive quarks — counterintuitively heavier than the proton itself — might carry about 0.6 percent of a proton’s momentum.
By measuring how often triplets of particles called W bosons appear, scientists can check physics’ standard model for any cracks.
Though decades away, the project hopes to use an array of ultrasensitive sensors as a “wind chime,” jostled by dark matter blowing past Earth.
Unlike its earlier incarnation, the XENONnT detector found no evidence of extra blips that scientists had hoped indicated new physics.
The LZ experiment’s first measurement raises hopes that scientists are closer than ever to finding the source of much of the universe’s mass.