If you could take an apple and break it into smaller and smaller parts, you would find molecules, then atoms, followed by ...

There's a problem with the field of high-energy physics, and it's the biggest one imaginable. On the one hand, we have the Standard Model of particle physics: a quantum field theory that describes the ...

Physicists may have just cracked open a hidden side of the quantum world. For decades, every known particle was thought to ...

In physics, there are two great pillars of thought that don't quite fit together. The Standard Model of particle physics describes all known fundamental particles and three forces: electromagnetism, ...

The muon mismatch was caused by calculation limits, not a new force. Improved methods bring theory and experiment into close ...

Welcome to this Physics World Particle & Nuclear Briefing bringing you the best of our recent coverage in these two areas. In this issue, we talk to Mark Thomson, who is set to take over running the ...

For years, scientists have searched for the sources of the most energetic particles in ...