Scientists spent decades chasing signs of a mysterious new force hidden inside the muon, one of nature’s strangest particles.

If you want to measure something that precisely, there's no way to do it yourself,” Joshua Labounty, a UW postdoctoral ...

I'm teaching introductory Newtonian mechanics again this term, and as always I find myself fascinated by bits of the subject that my students are largely indifferent to. This week, that collided with ...

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The idea that everything that exists can be built from the bottom up has long held sway among physicists. Now, a new kind of science is under construction that centres conscious experience – and might ...

Exclusive: Cern’s next director general Mark Thomson says AI is paving the way for huge advances in particle physics Advanced artificial intelligence is to revolutionise fundamental physics and could ...

Alexander Polyakov, Princeton University's Joseph Henry Professor of Physics, was honored with the 2013 Fundamental Physics Prize for his lasting work in field and string theory. The $3 million prize ...

Atanu Nath, assistant professor from Assam, won the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for his work on the Muon g ...