Symmetry

Neutrinos are a puzzling mixture of three flavors and three masses. Scientists want to measure it down to the last drop.

Quantum physics says everything is made of particles, but what does that actually mean?

Meet the world’s deepest underground physics facilities.

Simulations are key to showing how neutrinos help stars go supernova.

What are all of the symbols in Fermilab’s unofficial seal?

The Planck scale sets the universe’s minimum limit, beyond which the laws of physics break.

A reader asks, “If atoms are mostly empty space, then why does anything feel solid?” James Beacham, a researcher with the ATLAS Experiment Group at Ohio State University, explains in this two-minute video.

The Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles, but most of our mass comes from somewhere else.

Astronomers around the world are looking for visible sources of gravitational waves.

Scientists want to connect the fundamental forces of nature in one Grand Unified Theory.