An invisible force has long eluded detection within the halls of the world’s most famous particle accelerator—until now.

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High-energy cosmic rays, 10 million times more powerful than particles accelerated in Earth's strongest atom smasher, may ...

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Physicists may have just cracked open a hidden side of the quantum world. For decades, every known particle was thought to ...

Dark matter particles could be mediators of the interaction between electrons and atomic nuclei, as shown by a study ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

A neglected force produced by neutrinos and other particles helps atomic physics measurements align with predictions of the standard model.

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Particle characterization plays a critical role across a wide range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, additive manufacturing, energy, and materials science. Understanding particle ...