Physicists just discovered a brand-new particle that appears to be an exotic cousin to the protons and neutrons that make up ...

Researchers say they are alarmed by reports that the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the largest U.S. funder of the ...

"Over time, the diet caused remodeling of the mice's muscles, making them more oxidative and making them react better to ...

Researchers at CERN have announced a new particle that is like a slightly heavier version of the proton. This new particle, ...

Scientists have used CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to uncover what they say is an entirely new type of particle, dubbed ...

Researchers at CERN have utilized the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator to ...

Elementary particle physics reflects the human quest to understand the basic building blocks of nature and the rules that govern the physical world. This quest has led not only to critical scientific ...

A blazar is an active galactic nucleus, essentially a galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its heart, devouring ...

If particle physicists get their way, new accelerators could one day scrutinize the most tantalizing subatomic particle in physics — the Higgs boson. Six years after the particle’s discovery at the ...

Some of the most fundamental questions about our universe are also the most difficult to answer. Questions like what gives matter its mass, what is the invisible 96 percent of the universe made of, ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...