The standard model of particle physics represents the most comprehensive theory about fundamental or subatomic particles and forces in the universe. The model describes how matter and antimatter ...

Scientists at CERN spent the last decade waiting for a one-in-ten-billion chance event, and now they’ll spend the next few years figuring out whether it challenges the laws that (we think) govern the ...

Dipangkar Dutta receives funding from US Dept. of Energy and NSF. A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What ...

It’s the most energetic particle of its kind ever discovered, and scientists have no idea where it came from. By Katrina Miller Katrina Miller studied neutrinos of much lower energies at the ...

Quantum mechanics features heavily in our readers’ answers here, which also consider if there could be a universe larger than ours, such that ours is a subatomic particle by its standards You seem to ...