Neutrinos are elementary particles that are predicted to be massless by the standard model of particle physics, yet their ...

Quantum mechanics has a reputation that precedes it. Virtually everyone who has bumped up against the quantum realm, whether ...

Silver-110’s decay reveals a promising path to measure antineutrino mass. New data could reshape future neutrino studies.

Event display of a candidate Higgs boson decaying to two muons (H→μμ), shown as red tracks in the detector. (Image: ATLAS/CERN) Studies of the ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in ...

Quantum sensors have become important tools in low-energy particle physics. Michael Doser explores opportunities to exploit ...

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...

For decades, ferromagnetic materials have driven technologies like magnetic hard drives, magnetic random access memories and oscillators. But ...

This channel electron multiplier amplifies the faint signals generated in some types of mass spectrometry and other precision analytical techniques. Electrons are focused into the curved device, where ...

The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

Unlike the standard view of dark matter as a cloud of heavy, sluggish particles with no internal structure, the new research focuses on dark matter made of particles lighter than a millionth of an ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.