A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be created in exotic materials.

It is no heavier than 0.45 electron volts (eV) — less than one-millionth the mass of an electron, the next-lightest known ...

After netting the world’s highest-paying science award, preeminent theoretical physicist Gerard ’t Hooft reflects on his ...

Scientists from the KATRIN experiment have achieved the most precise upper limit ever recorded for the mass of the mysterious ...

Scientists are inching closer to uncovering the mass of ghost particles, a mystery that has remained unsolved for decades.

Fermilab announced that one of its computing projects received the second-largest award and was the largest particle physics ...

The international KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino Experiment (KATRIN) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has once ...

Heaviest known elementary particles and their antimatter counterparts are detected after nuclear smash-ups at the Large ...

Supersymmetry, long considered the golden child of theoretical physics, has officially lost its luster at the world’s ...

The detection of longitudinally polarised W boson production at the Large Hadron Collider is an important step towards ...

During the latter part of the 20th century, string theory was put forward as a unifying theory of physics foundations. String ...

The CMS collaboration at CERN has observed an unexpected feature in data produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which ...