Scientists from collaborations at Fermilab, CERN and Brookhaven National Laboratory have won the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in ...

A decade-long effort to measure one of physics’ most fundamental constants culminates in a moment of uncertainty and revelation.

The new calculation, made at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, could help solve a niggling mystery about this ...

For a few years, one of particle physics’ most unsettling numbers seemed to be pointing somewhere strange. The trouble ...

A special class of sensors leverages quantum properties to measure tiny signals at levels that would be impossible using ...

When fundamental particles are heavier or lighter than expected, physicists' understanding of the universe can tip into the ...

Scientists working on Fermilab's Muon g-2 experiment released the world's most precise measurement yet of the magnetic moment of the muon, bringing particle physics closer to the ultimate showdown ...

The universe is expanding about 10% faster than it should be, and a fresh set of measurements just made the problem harder to ...

Out of the billions of proton collision events, recorded in 2016, the CMS team found 117 million in which a W boson resulted, ...

A U.S. research lab has announced one of the most precise measurements ever of how a subatomic particle behaves, teeing up a showdown that could either vindicate one of science’s most powerful ...