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Rumors Cast Doubt on Diphoton Bump

By Natalie Wolchover
June 24, 2016
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Rampant rumors and a new analysis undercut hopes of a major discovery at the Large Hadron Collider.

Abstractions blog

Have Physicists Discovered a New Boson?

By Jeanette Kazmierczak
June 14, 2016
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A group of little-known Hungarian physicists claim to have found a new fundamental particle. Now other researchers are raising questions about the team’s past work.

nuclear physics

Evidence of a ‘Fifth Force’ Faces Scrutiny

By Natalie Wolchover
June 7, 2016
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A lab in Hungary has reported an anomaly that could lead to a physics revolution. But even as excitement builds, closer scrutiny has unearthed a troubling backstory.

Physics

Visions of Future Physics

By Natalie Wolchover
September 22, 2015
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Nima Arkani-Hamed is championing a campaign to build the world’s largest particle collider, even as he pursues a new vision of the laws of nature.

Q&A

The Case for Complex Dark Matter

By Liz Kruesi
August 20, 2015
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The physicist James Bullock explains how a complicated “dark sector” of interacting particles may illuminate some puzzling observations of the centers of galaxies.

Multimedia

Theories of Everything, Mapped

By Natalie Wolchover
August 3, 2015
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Explore the deepest mysteries at the frontier of fundamental physics, and the most promising ideas put forth to solve them.

Physics

A New Theory to Explain the Higgs Mass

By Natalie Wolchover
May 27, 2015
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Three physicists have proposed a new solution to one of the deepest mysteries in particle physics: why the Higgs boson has such a tiny mass.

particle physics

‘Penguin’ Anomaly Hints at Missing Particles

By Natalie Wolchover
March 20, 2015
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A statistical anomaly in the signal from rare particle decays at the Large Hadron Collider offers hope that new discoveries might be around the corner.

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Science’s Path From Myth to Multiverse

By Dan Falk
March 17, 2015
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In his latest book, the Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg explores how science made the modern world, and where it might take us from here.


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