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

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

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

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation, established by Silicon Valley luminaries including the tech icons behind Google and ...

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

It took 20 years and £6 billion to build the Large Hadron Collider, the world's biggest particle accelerator. Now, scientists ...

The rabbit hole of quantum gets weirder the deeper you go—but also has plenty of promise.

The Higgs boson is the simplest yet most perplexing particle discovered so far, with properties that have far-reaching implications for our existence. It is related to the mechanism that enabled ...

Scientists have taken a big step toward understanding the tiny particles and forces that make up everything in the universe.

Europe's physics lab CERN is planning to build a particle-smasher even bigger than its Large Hadron Collider to continue ...

The European physics laboratory CERN is planning to build a mega collider by 2070. Critics say the plan could lead to ruin ...

Microsoft named the chip “Majorana 1” because it consists of Majorana particles, which is a particular type of subatomic particle with unusual properties. One is that a Majorana particle is ...