What Is the Higgs Boson Particle, and Why Is It So Important?

This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if ...

We Could Recreate a Bizarre Form of Matter—And Finally Explain How the Universe Took ...

Dark matter seems invisible, but it makes up most matter, and we have evidence that it gives the cosmos its shape. Now ...
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Scientists may be approaching a 'fundamental breakthrough in cosmology and particle physics ...

Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that ...

A New Theory Says Gravity May Come From Entropy—Which Could Lead to a Unified Theory of Physics

Mind = blown.

Observing the positronium beam as a quantum matter wave for the first time

One of the discoveries that fundamentally distinguished the emerging field of quantum physics from classical physics was the ...
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Is light a particle or a wave?

Does light behave more like a particle, or like a wave? Today we know the surprising answer. Here's why it took so long to get there. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

SLAC scientists use X-rays to search for the world’s oldest star map

Using powerful X-rays, researchers at SLAC are trying to recover erased traces of a 2,000-year-old star catalog that could ...