Unless you're involved in the study of particle physics or a similar field, there's a good chance you might never have heard of a muon. Similar to ...

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

Scientists at Fermilab’s MicroBooNE experiment have ruled out the existence of the elusive sterile neutrino, a particle proposed for decades to explain puzzling neutrino behavior. Their high-precision ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

The European Strategy Group tasked a working group to compare seven proposals for CERN’s next large-scale collider.

For over ten years, physicists pursued a mysterious particle that could have upended modern physics. Now, researchers say it ...

You might think of x-rays as the go-to particle to see through solid objects. But there's a subatomic particle out there that ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: It used to be thought that bizarre interactions between subatomic particles known as neutrinos could be explained by another type of neutrino. The ...

Muon g-2 Theory Initiative chair Aida El-Khadra discusses conflicting datasets, disparate calculations and hot competition ...

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us. They come from cosmic rays—high-energy particles that can originate from exploding ...