A new calculation helps narrow down the mass of the W boson, one of the heaviest fundamental particles in the universe ...

Two extremely precise experiments agree with a previously shocking measurement of just how big the proton is, which may help ...

Measurement of W boson particle mass confirms Standard Model of physics and reignites the search for other particles.

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 years, Rutgers physicist David Shih solved Rubik's Cubes with his children, twisting the colorful squares until the ...

The collective gravity of countless neutrinos gently irons out the wrinkles in the cosmic web, preventing matter from ...

When fundamental particles are heavier or lighter than expected, physicists' understanding of the universe can tip into the ...

The muon collider was once dismissed as impossible, but is now gaining steam as the successor to the Large Hadron Collider.

In CERN’s high-temperature superconducting laboratory near Geneva, a wiring machine combines dozens of strands of niobium–tin ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A powerful new particle accelerator that could be set up at Fermilab, a telescope to observe the oldest light in the universe, and research to learn more about mysteries such as dark ...

Physicists at multiple institutions are compressing particle accelerators from facility-scale machines stretching hundreds of ...