For decades, a puzzling discrepancy involving a tiny subatomic particle called the muon fueled speculation that physicists might be on the verge of discovering an entirely new force of nature. Now, an ...
A philosopher has put forward an argument for rethinking how particles are defined within the standard model of particle physics ...
It sounds fantastical, but it's a reality for the scientists who work at the world's largest particle collider. In an underground tunnel some 350 feet beneath the France–Switzerland border, a huge ...
Solving life's great mysteries often requires detective work, using observed outcomes to determine their cause. For instance, nuclear physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson ...
When Mark Thomson was 13, he read a book about the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, a particle physics lab whose remit was to interrogate the fabric of reality. The ...
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