Brian Cox once toured as a keyboardist in major rock and pop bands. Now he’s a particle physicist on a new world tour with a dazzling show he designed in an era of science disinformation and denial.
By Stefano Montali
Overcoming discrimination in a mostly male preserve, she did groundbreaking work that showed experimentalist physicists where and how to look for new particles.
By Katrina Miller
Physicists working at the CERN particle physics lab said they detected a slight but significant difference in how particles of matter and antimatter decay.
By Kenneth Chang
The hunt for dark matter is shifting from particles to waves named after a laundry detergent.
By Dennis Overbye and Katrina Miller
A “muon shot” aims to study the basic forces of the cosmos. But meager federal budgets could limit its ambitions.
By Dennis Overbye and Katrina Miller
Consider it good news, physicists say: “The opposite result would have had big implications.”
By Dennis Overbye
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is damaging international scientific cooperation.
By Michael Riordan
The particle collider at CERN will soon restart. “There could be a revolution coming,” scientists say.
By Dennis Overbye
He shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries of forces that can distort the shape of an atomic nucleus, with implications for human-made nuclear fission.
By Dylan Loeb McClain
As Watches and Wonders returns as a live fair, here are some insider recommendations.
By Kathleen Beckett
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