When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Physicists are more than 99 percent sure that they've found a new elementary particle that is ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The world's largest atom smasher, designed as a portal to a new view of physics, has produced its ...

Physicists at the world's largest particle accelerator have made a first-of-its-kind discovery about antimatter that could help solve one of the universe's biggest mysteries. The discovery — made at ...

A rumor is floating around the physics community that the world's largest atom smasher may have detected a long-sought subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, also known as the "God particle." The ...

Physicists expect the world's largest atom smasher to find a long-sought theoretical new particle — or rule out that it exists — by the end of 2012. The Higgs boson isn't just any particle. It's the ...

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