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Lines representing paths of particles fan out from a point and pass through a series of detectors.
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Growing Anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider Raise Hopes

By Charlie Wood
May 26, 2020
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Collider physicists report that several measurements of particles called B mesons deviate from predictions. Alone, each oddity looks like a fluke, but their collective drift is more suggestive.

Three particles moving closer together then farther apart. The region between them appears in green.
Abstractions blog

What Goes On in a Proton? Quark Math Still Conflicts With Experiments.

By Charlie Wood
May 6, 2020
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Two ways of approximating the ultra-complicated math that governs quark particles have recently come into conflict, leaving physicists unsure what their decades-old theory predicts.

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Neutrino Asymmetry Passes Critical Threshold

By Natalie Wolchover
April 15, 2020
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The first official evidence of a key imbalance between neutrinos and antineutrinos provides one of the best clues for why the universe contains something rather than nothing.

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Why Do Matter Particles Come in Threes? A Physics Titan Weighs In.

By Charlie Wood
March 30, 2020
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Three progressively heavier copies of each type of matter particle exist, and no one knows why. A new paper by Steven Weinberg takes a stab at explaining the pattern.

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Axions Would Solve Another Major Problem in Physics

By Natalie Wolchover
March 17, 2020
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In a new paper, physicists argue that hypothetical particles called axions could explain why the universe isn’t empty.

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Abstractions blog

Top Dark Matter Candidate Loses Ground to Tiniest Competitor

By Charlie Wood
November 27, 2019
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Physicists have long searched for hypothesized dark matter particles called WIMPs. Now, focus may be shifting to the axion — an ultra-lightweight particle whose existence would solve two mysteries at once.

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Neutrinos Lead to Unexpected Discovery in Basic Math

By Natalie Wolchover
November 13, 2019
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Three physicists stumbled across an unexpected relationship between some of the most ubiquitous objects in math.

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How the Neutrino’s Tiny Mass Could Help Solve Big Mysteries

By Marcus Woo
October 15, 2019
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The KATRIN experiment is closing in on the mass of the neutrino, which could point to new laws of particle physics and shape theories of cosmology.

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Ann Nelson Took On the Biggest Problems in Physics

By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
August 22, 2019
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The theoretical particle physicist Ann Nelson, who died on August 4 at age 61, was a font of brilliant ideas and a champion of ending discrimination in the field.


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