Browsing: Particle Physics

What does a rational scientist do with an impossible result?

The real genius in the Nobel Prize-winning discovery is not who you think it is.

Neutrinos can flit between states effortlessly, hinting at deep new physics.

Particle accelerators can make you healthy and wealthy.

Animation of data from collisions at the LHCCERN Several years ago, particle physicist Lily Asquith was hanging out with a few musician pals in London after a band rehearsal, doing impromptu impersonations of what she thought the various elementary particles might sound like, and encouraging the drummer to recreate them electronically. Another band member asked […]

In the search for subatomic particles, it helps to know what you’re looking for.