An analysis of several experiments aimed at detecting the mysterious neutrino has identified a hint of a crack in the ...

A team of quantum physicists has taken a concept that once lived purely in equations and turned it into hardware reality, ...

Experimental particle physicists working at the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory have found ...

New results from the MicroBooNE experiment rule out the existence of a sterile neutrino, reshaping how scientists think about ...

Physicists in China have brought one of Einstein’s thought experiments into reality—but not quite with the outcome he hoped ...

Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new ...

Scientists have produced the firmest evidence yet of so-called sterile neutrinos, mysterious particles that pass through matter without interacting with it at all. The first hints these elusive ...

Physicists are exploring whether hidden dimensions and the shape of space could help explain why fundamental particles have ...

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

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Baryons, composite particles made up of three quarks bound together via the so-called strong force, make up the most visible matter and have thus been the focus of numerous physics studies. Studying ...

An underground vat of liquid xenon in Italy may have just detected a new particle, born in the heart of the sun. If that's indeed what happened, it could upend laws of physics that have held fast for ...