Symmetry

The goal of science is to search for truth through impartial analysis, but scientists must also consider the human element. Not all scientific claims are equal. How can you tell if a discovery is real?

Nearly 75 years after the puzzling first detection of the kaon, scientists are still looking to the particle for hints of physics beyond their current understanding.

Sal Wanying Fu knows there’s more to science than numbers.

The newly operational KAGRA will bump the number of gravitational-wave observatories to four, which will allow scientists to better triangulate the source of ripples in space-time.

Department of Energy officials have formally signed off on project completion for LUX-ZEPLIN, or LZ: an ultrasensitive experiment that will use 10 metric tons of liquid xenon to hunt for signals of interactions with theorized dark matter particles called WIMPs.

Here’s how physicists calculate g-2, the value that will determine whether the muon is giving us a sign of new physics.

Rubin Observatory will bring new capabilities to the studies of dark matter and dark energy.

The LUX-ZEPLIN collaboration has published results showing radioactive background levels for experiment’s components, creating a library for future rare event searches.

Next week, scientists with connections to U.S. particle physics will make their morning coffee, boot up their computers and log in to a virtual community planning meeting with over 1,500 colleagues. The four-day gathering will set the stage for a process known as Snowmass, during which scientists will develop a collective vision for the next decade of U.S. particle physics research. The Snowmass process seeks to identify the most promising questions to explore in future research.

Extremely massive fundamental particles could exist, but they would seriously mess with our understanding of quantum mechanics.