The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a major new scientific facility jointly funded by the US National Science Foundation ...

Once the most popular framework for physics beyond the Standard Model, supersymmetry is facing a reckoning—but many researchers are not giving up on it yet. The Standard Model of particle physics is ...

Next week, physicists will meet in Venice to discuss the future of European particle physics research. Early in his career, ...

Solving the next neutrino mystery. In the 1960s, a new mystery involving the neutrino began—this time in a gold mine in South Dakota. Ray Davis, a nuclear chemist at the DOE’s Brookhaven National ...

Neutrinos don’t seem to get their mass in the same way as other particles in the Standard Model. In 1998, researchers made a discovery that challenged their understanding of particle physics and ...

For years, scientists thought that neutrinos fit perfectly into the Standard Model. But they don't. By better understanding these strange, elusive particles, scientists seek to better understand the ...

3. It all adds up to 85%. Amazingly, despite being unclear on precisely what dark matter is, astrophysicists do know pretty well how much of it there is—which is why we can say that it accounts for 85 ...

Gravity: we barely ever think about it, at least until we slip on ice or stumble on the stairs. To many ancient thinkers, gravity wasn’t even a force—it was just the natural tendency of objects to ...

The Standard Model is a kind of periodic table of the elements for particle physics. But instead of listing the chemical elements, it lists the fundamental particles that make up the atoms that make ...

First meetings. On a chilly but bright Saturday morning, Yuly awaits the arrival of his guests, his boyish smile stretched from ear to ear. He has specific questions for the visitors about some ...

Getting there. Before building the DUNE detectors, scientists must test and validate their technology. Scientists at European research center CERN have taken on this task by building and operating a ...