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'The Majoron' — a bizarre particle that's its own opposite — could explain the biggest mysteries of the universe, scientists claimThere's a significant imbalance between matter and antimatter in our universe, but a strange particle called "the Majoron" could finally explain it, an audacious new study suggests.
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800-mile-long 'DUNE' experiment could reveal the hidden dimensions of the universeA new underground facility called DUNE, which will accelerate particles for 800 miles between Illinois and South Dakota, could reveal the hidden dimensions of the universe, new research suggests.
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Large Hadron Collider finds 1st evidence of the heaviest antimatter particle yetScientists at CERN's ALICE detector are replicating conditions found during the Big Bang, attempting to get to the bottom of how matter came to dominate over antimatter.
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Is light a particle or a wave?Does light behave more like a particle, or like a wave? Today we know the surprising answer. Here's why it took so long to get there.
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'Hawking radiation' may be erasing black holes. Watching it happen could reveal new physics.Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to new physics, a study suggests.
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1st-ever observation of 'spooky action' between quarks is highest-energy quantum entanglement ever detectedThe discovery of two entangled quarks at the large Hadron Collider is the highest-energy observation of entanglement ever made.
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Heaviest antimatter particle ever discovered could hold secrets to our universe's originsThe newly found antiparticle, called antihyperhydrogen-4, could have a potential imbalance with its matter counterpart that may help scientists understand how our universe came to be.
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The Higgs particle could break physics throughout the universe. Here's why it hasn't.The elusive Higgs particle has the power to undo physics as we know it. The fact that it hasn't could have big implications about the nature of the universe.
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'A remarkable conspiracy': Why is matter neutral? Physicist Frank Close explores the mystery in a new bookFrank Close tells us about the history of particle physics, and what it means that charge in our universe's matter is so closely balanced.
