Particle Physics
- Astronomy
Mysterious high-energy particles could come from black hole jets
Three types of high-energy cosmic particles could all have the same source: black holes in galaxy clusters.
- Particle Physics
Magnets with a single pole are still giving physicists the slip
Using data from particle accelerators and dead stars, scientists eliminate some possible masses for magnetic monopoles.
- Particle Physics
Excess antielectrons aren’t from nearby dead stars, study says
Pulsars might not be behind excess antimatter, gamma-ray observations suggest.
- Particle Physics
Readers question photons colliding, black sea snakes and more
Readers had questions about brain flexibility, black sea snakes and photon collisions.
- Astronomy
Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays come from outside the Milky Way
The biggest cosmic ray haul ever points toward other galaxies as the source of the rays, not our own.
- Astronomy
The sun’s strongest flare in 11 years might help explain a solar paradox
The sun tends to release its biggest flares at the ends of solar cycles — and we might finally be able to test why.
- Particle Physics
The results from a slew of experiments are in: Dark matter remains elusive
Scientists continue the search for particles that make up the universe’s missing matter.
- Particle Physics
Dark matter still remains elusive
Scientists continue the search for particles that make up the universe’s missing matter.
- Particle Physics
Normally aloof particles of light seen ricocheting off each other
Scientists spot evidence of photons interacting at the Large Hadron Collider.
- Particle Physics
Neutrino experiment may hint at why matter rules the universe
T2K experiment hints at an explanation for what happened to antimatter.
- Particle Physics
Neutrinos seen scattering off an atom’s nucleus for the first time
New type of interaction confirms that neutrinos play by the rules.
- Particle Physics
Newfound particle relies on its charm(s)
First-of-its-kind subatomic particle is composed of two charm quarks and an up quark.
