particle physics
The Best Particle Collider in the World? The Sun
Recently astronomers caught a strange mystery: extremely high-energy particles spitting out of the surface of the Sun when it was…
The Technique for Detecting Meteors Could be Used to Find Dark Matter Particles Entering the Atmosphere
Researchers from Ohio State University have come up with a novel method to detect dark matter, based on existing meteor-detecting…
IceCube Senses Neutrinos Streaming From an Active Galaxy 47 Million Light-Years Away
Researchers using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have detected neutrinos emanating from the energetic core of an active galaxy millions of…
LHC Scientists Find Three Exotic Particles — and Start Hunting for More
Physicists say they've found evidence in data from Europe's Large Hadron Collider for three never-before-seen combinations of quarks, just as…
Large Hadron Collider Restarts, Shooting Protons at Record Energy Levels
Europe's Large Hadron Collider has started up its proton beams again at unprecedented energy levels after going through a three-year…
Weird! Measurement of W Boson Doesn’t Match Standard Model of Physics
A decade ago, physicists wondered whether the discovery of the Higgs boson at Europe’s Large Hadron Collider would point to…
Almost all High-Energy Neutrinos Come From Quasars
Earth is blasted by high-energy neutrinos from the most powerful objects in the universe.
If Axions Explain Dark Matter, it Could be Possible to Detect Them Nearby Neutron Stars
Astronomers look for dark matter in the radio signals of neutron stars. If found it could solve two problems in…
A Fifth Fundamental Force Could Really Exist, But We Haven’t Found It Yet
The universe is governed by four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. These forces drive…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 486: Particle Physics Update
It's time for a news update. This time from the field of particle physics. It turns out there have been…