These are the event displays of Large Hadron Collider physicists’ dreams. Our current understanding of particle physics, known as the Standard Model, has been tremendously successful. Over the past 40 ...

‘What we’ve put together is almost a new machine.’ ‘What we’ve put together is almost a new machine.’ The Large Hadron Collider is reborn — on Easter weekend, of course. After shutting it down for two ...

In 2016, Earth’s South Pole was struck by a ghostly particle from some unknown corner of the universe. This antineutrino — the neutrino’s antimatter twin — collided with an electron at nearly the ...