Symmetry

The Higgs boson is the only fundamental particle known to be scalar, meaning it has no quantum spin. This fact answers questions about our universe, but it also raises new ones.

Scientists have proposed new instruments that would use spectroscopy to decode dark matter, dark energy and cosmic inflation.

Scientists in the particle physics community are bringing environmental and climate issues to the table in discussions about future research.

Most astronomers trek to the mountaintops to study the stars, but a group of physicists are seeking the secrets of the cosmos with a detector at the bottom of the ocean.

For decades, scientists have tried to find a way to measure the mass of the lightest matter particle known to exist. Three new approaches now have a chance to succeed.

A recent report underscores the importance of energy consumption and cost to decisions about future large-scale particle accelerator projects.

A physicist, a composer and a creative technician team up to translate the unseen particles around us into a format that human bodies can understand.

This year’s list includes a book about an eminent physicist striving to avoid fame, two unique books for children, and a book with equations you’ll actually be able to read.

For the first time, physicists have a statistically significant measurement of the joint polarization of W and Z bosons.

LSST Camera images provide the inspiration for artist Lennart Lahuis’s “Astromelancholia.”