Did we just see a black hole explode? Physicists think so—and it could explain (almost) everything

In 2023, a subatomic particle called a neutrino crashed into Earth with such a high amount of energy that it should have been ...

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 ...

Something Mysteriously Powerful Slammed Into Earth in 2023. Scientists Now Have a Theory

In 2023, a detector buried off the Mediterranean Sea spotted an impossibly powerful neutrino signal—tens of thousands of times more energetic than anything produced by humanity’s most powerful ...
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Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard?

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

A 'crazy' dice proof leads to a new understanding of a fundamental law of physics

Right now, molecules in the air are moving around you in chaotic and unpredictable ways. To make sense of such systems, ...

The Baby Universe Really Was a Goopy Soup, Research Suggests

The new research verifies Rajagopal’s account of the QGP, using a neutral, electrically weak particle called the Z boson as a marker to track the movement of quarks in the plasma. Since the Z boson ...

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 ...