Peter Higgs, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who proposed a new particle known as the Higgs boson, has died. Higgs, 94, who was awarded the Nobel…
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Cern aims to build €20bn atom-smasher to unlock secrets of universe
Officials at Cern, home to the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, are pressing ahead with plans for a new machine that would be at least…
View More Cern aims to build €20bn atom-smasher to unlock secrets of universe‘What the heck is going on?’ Extremely high-energy particle detected falling to Earth
Astronomers have detected a rare and extremely high-energy particle falling to Earth from space. Named Amaterasu, after the sun goddess in Japanese mythology, it is…
View More ‘What the heck is going on?’ Extremely high-energy particle detected falling to EarthScientists may be on brink of discovering fifth force of nature
The tantalising theory that a fifth force of nature could exist has been given a boost thanks to unexpected wobbling by a subatomic particle, physicists…
View More Scientists may be on brink of discovering fifth force of natureScientists seek out source of dark matter in Yorkshire
British scientists have an audacious dream. They want to house a giant international particle detector that would be built 3,000ft underground in a working mine…
View More Scientists seek out source of dark matter in YorkshireSplitting the atomic scientists: how the Ukraine war ruined physics
In normal times, the four large physics experiments using proton collisions at Cern’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland publish numerous scientific articles a year.…
View More Splitting the atomic scientists: how the Ukraine war ruined physicsNew US lab to create versions of atoms never recorded on Earth
From carbon to uranium, oxygen to iron, chemical elements are the building blocks of the world around us and the wider universe. Now, physicists are…
View More New US lab to create versions of atoms never recorded on EarthLarge Hadron Collider to restart and hunt for a fifth force of nature
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will restart on Friday after a three-year hiatus and is expected to resolve a scientific cliffhanger on whether a mysterious…
View More Large Hadron Collider to restart and hunt for a fifth force of natureQuantum of solace: even physicists are still scratching their heads | Letters
Your editorial on quantum physics (30 August) starts with a quote from Richard Feynman – “nobody understands quantum mechanics” – and then says “that is…
View More Quantum of solace: even physicists are still scratching their heads | LettersDark matter: one last push to crack the biggest secret in the universe
Deep underground, scientists are closing in on one of the most elusive targets of modern science: dark matter. In subterranean laboratories in the US and…
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