91av

Particle physics

DNA molecules

Physics

DNA-based detector could precisely track subatomic particles

A proposed particle detector contains strands of hanging DNA that are severed when high-energy particles pass through – and it could allow us to track particle paths with nanoscale precision

News
Tevatron

Physics

Particle physics could be rewritten after shock W boson measurement

News

Physics

Strongest ever magnetic field fails to make predicted exotic particles

News
CGI abstract. hadron, futuristic, higgs, technology, abstract, science, explosion, collider, background, particle, digital, nuclear, atom, space, light, fractal, energy, plasma, physics, accelerator, matter, proton, fusion, scientific, universe,

Physics

Advances in physics may seem abstract at first but tech often follows

News
Split photon

Physics

Photons could be ‘split’ in two to create a weird new form of light

News
MicroBooNE

Physics

Physicists fail to find mysterious ‘sterile neutrino’ particles

News
crab nebula

Space

Crab nebula blasted out some of highest-energy gamma rays ever seen

News

Physics

Can a new collider reveal the last secrets of the Higgs boson?

Features
Portrait of the German mathematician Amalie Emmy Noether (1882-1935), c.1910

Emmy Noether

Physics

Why the latest muon measurements are so tantalising for physics

Recent experiments hint that there may be particles that we have yet to discover, but there could be a different explanation too, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

News

Quantum field theory

Physics

Strange muon behaviour hints at mysterious new particles and forces

News

Physics

Neutrinos change their identities and we don’t know why

News

Physics

Has the Large Hadron Collider finally challenged the laws of physics?

News