Particle Physics

Although President Trump has claimed Iran was weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon, much more work was needed for the country to do so

After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest and only particle collider—has ceased operations, but its science lives on

Scientists have found “strange quarks” that originated as virtual particles that sprang from nothing

Hidden beneath the hills of southern China, the JUNO observatory shows promise in solving neutrino mysteries

Quark-gluon plasma, a bizarre state of matter that mimics the early cosmos, is the hottest thing ever made on Earth

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for dark matter

The answer to this supposedly simple particle physics question isn’t so simple

Federal officials seized 3,000 copies of Scientific American in 1950 in a “red scare” era of attacks on science. The move backfired and offers lessons for today

A relatively small detector caught neutrinos from a nuclear reactor using a technique known as coherent scattering

Researchers hoped CMB-S4, a $900-million cosmology experiment, would answer one of the greatest questions in physics. Instead it’s become another cautionary tale of pursuing big science amid shrinking budgets

The LHCb experiment has observed a new difference between matter and antimatter in particles called baryons

Inspired by superconductivity, a strange new theory that seeks to explain dark matter might explain dark energy, too