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Google Doodle honors César Lattes, Brazilian physicist who discovered a long-sought particle hidden in cosmic raysThe physicist César Lattes, who is honored today (July 11) in a Google Doodle, is famous across Latin America for his discovery of the pion — a subatomic particle produced by shockwaves from exploding stars.
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Peter Higgs, Nobel Prize-winning physicist who predicted the Higgs boson, dies at 94Celebrated theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, best known for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson, has died at the age of 94 after a short illness.
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Mysterious 'unparticles' may be pushing the universe apart, new theoretical study suggestsNew theoretical research suggests that a mysterious form of matter called "unparticles" could be the driving force behind the expansion of the universe.
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World's smallest particle accelerator is 54 million times smaller than the Large Hadron Collider, and it worksScientists have created the world's first nanophotonic electron accelerator, which speeds negatively charged particles with mini laser pulses and is small enough to fit on a coin.
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What is the strong force?Reference The strong force is one of the four fundamental forces of nature. Learn how it fits into the Standard Model of particle physics.
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Neutrino map of the galaxy is 1st view of the Milky Way in 'anything other than light'Scientists at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have used 60,000 neutrinos to create the first map of the Milky Way made with matter and not light.
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Scientists tried to solve the mystery of the helium nucleus — and ended up more confused than everHelium is the simplest element in the periodic table with more than one particle in its nucleus, yet state of the art theory and experiments on it don't add up.
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Exotic new state of matter discovered by squishing subatomic particles into an ultradense crystalBy shining a strong beam of light through two chemical compounds, scientists discovered a unique new state of matter made of particles called excitons.
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Gravity can transform into light, mind-bending physics paper suggestsIn the early universe, gravity may have been capable of creating light, a new theoretical paper finds.
