Credit: starsandspirals/flickr/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 For decades, physicists trying to uncover the large and small structures of the universe have been coming up empty—no evidence of supersymmetry at the ...

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is designed to probe the fringes of known physics, and now the facility has found particles not behaving as predicted. While it’s still early days, the discovery ...

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 dreamy new exhibition of images showcases the art of physics, from the beauty of a bubble rising to the flow of water around coral. The images, part of the American Physical Society's Division of ...

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The Institute of Physics has developed a special art installation that looks at the beauty behind particle detectors. “Covariance” is the work of physicist Ben Still and Lyndall Phelps and is located ...

It is unusual for TV news to open with a story about physics, but it happened on July 4, 2012, when all around the world stations chose to devote prime time to breaking news from Geneva: a search of ...

The great physicist Hermann Weyl once said: "My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful." But is this actually ...

Can beautiful ideas drive science? In A Beautiful Question, physicist and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek makes a potent case that they can, hinging on qualities that have served as pathfinders to ...

It's 2 a.m. and I'm awake. One's sense of time lapses in this subterranean world of optics laboratories in the basement of the University of Toronto's physics building. There's a 20-second rhythm to ...