The expansiveness of the concept helps explain its endurance.

If particles are what carry the force of gravity, those particles should be detectable… in theory.

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Strange matter only occurs under very specific circumstances -- and astrophysicists are getting closer to understanding what ...

The U.S. and China are racing to develop computers based on the properties of quantum physics – with implications for science ...

The leading explanation for each of these events is what’s known as a bit flip: an electronic glitch caused by radiation from space. Although uncommon, they can have significant consequences. And as ...

Does physical reality change according to human knowledge? In science, physicist Werner Heisenberg expressed the idea that ...

The Nobel-prize-winning Belgian theoretical physicist François Englert, whose work led to the discovery of the Higgs boson, ...

François Englert, a Belgian theoretical physicist who played a pivotal role in the discovery of the so-called 'God ...

After decades of hunting, physicists still don’t know what makes up most of the universe’s matter. Now they need to cast a wider net.

Every time I write about particle physics, I encounter a moment of uncertainty about a quantity that, at first glance, ought to be clear. How many kinds of elementary particles should I say there are?

Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles — the standard model of particle physics — must be incomplete, because there are a host of phenomena it cannot ...