Sebastian Mizera just joined the physics department as an assistant professor, researching quantum field theory.

Odd radio waves emanating from the ice don’t fit our model of particle behavior. Could they be a sign of dark matter?

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory in China has successfully completed its first proof-of-concept experiment.

What would happen if you stuck your body inside a particle accelerator? The scenario seems like the start of a bad Marvel comic, but it happens to shed light on our intuitions about radiation, the ...

Physicists have discovered an exotic new state of matter that takes the form of a highly ordered crystal of subatomic particles. The new state of matter, called a "bosonic correlated insulator," could ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would ...

Quantum mechanics is simultaneously beautiful and frustrating. Its explanatory power is unmatched. Armed with the machinery of quantum theory, we have unlocked the secrets of atomic power, divined the ...

Of all the subatomic particles that have any mass at all, the neutrino is the lightest by far. In comparison, the electron, itself a quantum featherweight, has a mass that is at least 500,000 times ...

Although its existence had been theorized for decades, the Higgs boson was finally observed to exist in 2012 at the Large ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: VICTOR de SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images Quantum physics is the branch ...