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"The new claim now is [a] boson with a mass of 16.7 MeV. But they don’t say anything about what went wrong in their previous claims and why we should not take those claims seriously." -Oscar Naviliat Cuncic

Researchers have published an important white paper identifying activities in particle physics where emerging quantum-computing technologies could be applied. With quantum computing rapidly improving, the paper sets out where these could be applied within particle physics, in order to help tackle computing challenges related to not only the upgrade programme of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva but also to other colliders and low energy experiments world-wide, including several where D...

According to our predominant cosmological models, Dark Matter accounts for roughly 85% of the mass in the Universe.

Sheldon Glashow concludes his three-part series of essays on the history of physics with the story of the Standard Model.

In the 11 years since its discovery at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Higgs boson has become a central avenue for shedding light on the fundamental structure of the Universe. Precise measurements of the properties of this special particle are among the most powerful tools physicists have to test the Standard Model, currently the theory that best describes the world of particles and their interactions. At the Lepton Photon Conference this week, the ATLAS collaboration reported how it has me...

For the first time, a massive galaxy has been found to contain no dark matter, puzzling cosmologists.

A massive galaxy that behaves like it has next to no dark matter within it could challenge the current understanding of how the universe works.

Discoveries of highly evolved galaxies soon after the Big Bang has driven one cosmologist to a new theory: the universe is much older than we think.

Half a century ago, a series of tiny tracks in a bubble chamber at CERN changed the course of particle physics. The observation of “weak neutral currents”, announced on 19 July 1973 by Paul Musset of the Gargamelle collaboration, suggested that the electromagnetic and weak forces are facets of a more fundamental electroweak interaction that ruled in the early Universe. Exploring this new sector of nature has been a core business of CERN ever since, leading to the discovery of the W and Z bos...

Although they're called dark stars, these objects are supposed to be brighter than entire galaxies.