The model we have for understanding the universe’s fundamental particles is a bit like a gearbox: one tiny change to any one single particles’ properties throws off the mechanics of the other ...

Recent findings from research we have been carrying out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern in Geneva suggest that we ...

Always seeking harmony, man sees the universe—for a few brief moments—as a pleasingly simple machine. Then curiosity about the nature of matter gets the better of him. Democritus conceived matter as ...

Researchers may be on the brink of discovering evidence of a fifth fundamental force. As far as we know, at the most basic level, the universe is made up of fundamental particles and controlled by ...

A team of theoretical physicists has proposed a new particle that could act as a bridge between ordinary matter and dark matter, existing in a warped fifth dimension beyond space and time. Their model ...

Scientists believe that there are more dimensions to our universe, but our limited senses are keeping us from noticing them. This also means that there could be hidden curvatures of space-time or ...

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 ...

The discovery of the Higgs boson filled in a missing piece of the standard model of particle physics, which describes matter and its interactions. A decade later, physicists continue to probe the ...

According to our current understanding of the universe, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been produced in the Big Bang, then both annihilated. However, the universe is dominated by ...

Some of the most fundamental questions about our universe are also the most difficult to answer. Questions like what gives matter its mass, what is the invisible 96 percent of the universe made of, ...