By replacing single atoms with an entangled pair of ions, physicists in Germany have demonstrated unprecedented stability in ...

European funding agencies welcomed today the priorities for the future of astroparticle physics defined by the scientific community , and accepted the recommendations included in the newly published ...

Two independent lines of evidence from the world’s most powerful particle experiments are converging on the same ...

The field of particle physics is approaching a critical horizon defined by challenges including unprecedented data volumes and detector complexity. Upcoming ...

The 50-foot-wide racetrack used to study muons traveled by barge around Florida and up the Mississippi, and then by truck across Illinois. Reidar Hahn, Fermilab About 50 years ago, physicists came up ...

A major upgrade to the LHCb experiment at CERN is under threat after the UK cancelled its contribution towards it. The decision by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to defund the ...

The latest results have moved scientists closer to disproving the standard model of particle physics, though uncertainty still remains. A new study has bolstered the idea that an unknown fifth force ...

Physicists in Germany have carried out the most accurate measurement to date of the width of the proton. By examining a ...

THE LAWS of physics may need rewriting after the most precise measurement ever made of an elementary particle - called the W boson - has revealed it to be heavier than expected under the Standard ...