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“It’s a Boson:” Higgs Quest Bears New Particle
Scientists at Europe’s CERN research centre have found a new subatomic particle, a basic building block of the universe,...
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Humble DNA Could Help Decipher Dark Matter
A few strands of DNA could help solve the mystery of dark matter. A newly proposed detector aims to...
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U.S. Scientists See Stronger Hints of Higgs
Hints of the Higgs boson detected last year by a US “atom smasher” have become even stronger, scientists have...
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Could LHC Discover Particle Behind Both Mass and Cosmic Inflation?
Within a sliver of a second after it was born, our universe expanded staggeringly in size, by a factor...
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Scientists Recreate Matter Flooding Universe Moments After Big Bang
Scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have carried out an experiment that has recreated a form of matter that...
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Would Finding ET Shatter Religious Beliefs?
The discovery of life beyond Earth would shake up our view of humanity’s place in the universe, but it...
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The Big Bang Didn’t Need God to Start the Universe
Our universe could have popped into existence 13.7 billion years ago without any divine help whatsoever, researchers say. That...
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Dark Matter Tracks Could Give Earliest View of Universe
Researchers have come up with a way to glimpse the infant Universe by decoding the earliest ripples in its...
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A Windy Early Universe
The early universe was a vastly different place from the one we see today. No stars burned in faraway...
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Euclid Mission to Probe Universe’s Darkest Secrets Approved
The first-ever mission dedicated to looking for dark matter and dark energy, two mysterious entities believed to explain the...