The Higgs boson was supposed to be the final piece of the Standard Model puzzle. Confirmed at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012, it completed a theoretical framework decades in the making. But a ...

UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...

A tiny discrepancy in particle physics has loomed for decades as an exciting possible crack in one of science’s most ...

Theories of quantum mechanics predict that some particles can exist in superpositions, which essentially means that they can ...

Two recent studies by Professor Stefano Profumo at the University of California, Santa Cruz, propose theories that attempt to answer one of the most fundamental open questions in modern physics: What ...

A proposed funding program for small- and medium-scale projects reveals insights into the science, logistical challenges, and future of particle physics research. Particle physicists have a reputation ...

A groundbreaking experiment at the Tokyo University of Science has proven that beams of antimatter atom exhibit wave-like ...

A major physics experiment has uncovered evidence for a strange new form of matter, where a fleeting particle gets trapped inside a nucleus. This exotic state may reveal how mass is generated, ...

Our best mathematical model of the universe doesn’t match our observational reality, especially the existence of dark matter. Dark matter seems invisible, but it makes up most matter, and we have ...

A study by Dartmouth researchers proposes a new theory about the origin of dark matter, the mysterious and invisible substance thought to give the universe its shape and structure. They say the ...

Now is a surreal time to be a dark matter researcher. Even as research funding is being cut by governments around the world, dark matter remains one of the biggest and most exciting open problems in ...

New research suggests a particle inside an atom can lose mass, offering a fresh look at how matter works at the smallest ...