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Does the W boson break the Standard Model? Depends on how you measure it.

“There’s a mark born every minute, and one to trim ‘em and one to knock ‘em.” -David W. Maurer, The Big Con (1940) But how could you tell? There's lots of amazing science going on out there, and none of us can be experts in it all. Moreover, even when we think we know how things ought to behave, nature has a way of surprising us, and that's usually via experiment, which is our first indication that our theories are incomplete.

Named after particle physicist Homer Neal, it will be the first academic building on UM's Central Campus named after a Black alumnus, officials said.

Frank Wilczek explains why the Higgs sector could act as a portal through which to access a wide class of “phantom” particles that might otherwise elude detection.

Last year a new finding in particle physics stunned scientists: a fundamental particle responsible for one of the Universe's four fundamental forces was heavier than predicted.

A normalisation bias in the beta-decay spectrum of uranium-235 is the most probable explanation for a deficit of electron neutrinos seen at reactor experiments.

An extraordinary harvest of new results were shown at La Thuile from 18-25 March, with physicists leaving no stone unturned in the search for new physics.

The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest and most powerful, has revealed the most distant galaxy ever observed, which formed in the early days of the

Astronomers have long contemplated the possibility that there may be forms of matter in the universe that are imperceptible, either because they are too far away, too dim or intrinsically invisible. Lord Kelvin was perhaps the first, in 1904, to attempt a dynamical estimate of the amount of dark matter in the universe. His argument […]

Last weekend was our APS-funded outreach workshop The Schrödinger Sessions: Science for Science Fiction, held at the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland. The workshop offered a three-day "crash course" on quantum physics to 17 science fiction writers from a variety of media-- we had novelists, short-story writers, screenwriters, and at least one poet.