Scientists spent decades chasing signs of a mysterious new force hidden inside the muon, one of nature’s strangest particles.

Muons are getting a move on. In a step toward new types of particle physics experiments, scientists cooled and then accelerated a beam of muons. The subatomic particles, heavy cousins of electrons, ...

Researechers are testing superconducting microwire single-photon detectors (SMSPDs) for use in future particle physics exepriments. The detectors, which were designed and fabricated at JPL and ...

Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have uncovered new hints that certain particle decays may not behave as the ...

In a historic first for the laboratory, CERN has received $1 billion in private donations to support the development of the Future Circular Collider (FCC). This philanthropic backing marks a shift in ...

Welcome to this Physics World Particle & Nuclear Briefing which includes news, features and opinion about the latest developments and issues in these two areas. In this issue we take a look at ...

Physicists may have uncovered a surprising new clue that string theory—the idea that the universe is built from unimaginably tiny vibrating strings—could be more than just a mathematical fantasy.

Programmable optical particle transport based on structured light plays a crucial role in microscale manipulation. Scientists ...

In the coming weeks, Symmetry will explore the ways scientists are using artificial intelligence to advance particle physics and astrophysics—in a series of articles written and illustrated entirely ...

The SMSPDs can precisely detect single particles at a time. The detectors were designed and fabricated at JPL and commissioned at the INQNET-Caltech labs. Credit: Cristián Peña, Fermilab To learn more ...

To learn more about the nature of matter, energy, space, and time, physicists smash high-energy particles together in large accelerator machines, creating sprays of millions of particles per second of ...