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Phase transitions, such as the boiling of water or the melting of a metal, are commonplace but fascinating phenomena that spur surprises decades after decades. They often occur as the temperature of a substance is changed, through the nucleation of b

A look at the counter-argument against the Standard Model, experimentation with viscosity, and the consequences of extreme rainfall events.

A decadelong experiment produced the most accurate measurement yet of the mass of W bosons. These particles are responsible for the weak force, and the result is more evidence for undiscovered physics.

A decade of science and trillions of collisions show the W boson is more massive than expected. A physicist on the team explains what it means for the reigning model of particle physics.

Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media

Gravity can be described in a variety of ways. Heres how Newton and Einstein took gravity from an observation to a measurable phenomenon.

A new two–phase approach to building the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment ignites controversy among particle physicists

"A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself." -Robert Burton Both the internal motions of individual galaxies and the wholesale motions of galaxies within clusters require much more mass than normal matter — protons, neutrons and electrons — can account for: about five times as much. Because this can't be any of the Standard Model particles, and it can't interact either electromagnetically or with the nuclear forces, we refer to it a...

The Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) collaboration, which involves 400 scientists from around the world, have measured the mass of the W boson, one of nature’s force-carrying particles.The measurement does not match the value expected based on the

The W boson, one of the elementary particles of the Standard Model, has been determined to be more massive than first predicted.