Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

An old puzzle in particle physics has been solved: How can quantum field theories be best formulated on a lattice to ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

In the coming weeks, Symmetry will explore the ways scientists are using artificial intelligence to advance particle physics and astrophysics—in a series of articles written and illustrated entirely ...

Far beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists are mapping a landscape that looks less like a frozen desert and more like an ...

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

For more than a century, modern physics has rested on two towering frameworks that do not quite agree with each other.

Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though ...

The Panel on Particle Astrophysics and Gravitation (PAG) will identify and suggest to the Astro2020 decadal survey committee a program of federal investment in research activities exploring areas at ...

Before the Ancient Romans, it was the Ancient Greeks who colonized Naples, leaving behind traces of life, and death, inside ancient burial chambers, she says. She points a flashlight at a stone-relief ...

A committee-supported project or activity that has been completed and for which output dissemination has begun. Its committee has been disbanded and closeout procedures are underway. Elementary ...

BERLIN, Germany – January 17, 2026 — Neutrinovoltaic, a Berlin-based research and information platform focused on ...