Particle physics
The most dangerous delivery truck? How a lorry-load of antimatter will help solve secrets of universe
Fantastically expensive and hard to handle, the substance holds the key to a holy grail of science. And experts at Cern now know how to transport it
Robin McKie, science editor
08, Dec, 2024 @6:00 AM
Ian Shipsey obituary
Physicist whose silicon devices helped to unlock the secrets of the earliest fractions of a second of our universe
Brian Foster
07, Nov, 2024 @10:25 AM
Tsung-Dao Lee obituary
Theoretical physicist who won the Nobel prize with Chen Ning Yang in 1957 for their work on subatomic particles
Frank Close
15, Aug, 2024 @3:08 PM
Fusion power might be 30 years away but we will reap its benefits well before
Discoveries made in pursuit of nuclear fusion have potentially huge practical applications in everything from curing cancer to superior batteries for EVs
Stuart Clark
11, Aug, 2024 @5:00 AM
Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery
Rosemary Fowler discovered the kaon particle during her doctoral research in 1948 but gave up PhD to have a family
Mabel Banfield-Nwachi
22, Jul, 2024 @10:45 AM
The big idea: are we about to discover a new force of nature?
The wealth of emerging evidence suggest that physics may be on the brink of something big
Harry Cliff
15, Apr, 2024 @11:30 AM
Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94
Nobel-prize winning physicist who showed how particle helped bind universe together died at home in Edinburgh
Severin Carrell and Ian Sample
09, Apr, 2024 @4:54 PM
Cern aims to build €20bn collider to unlock secrets of universe
Research lab submits plans for next-generation model at least three times size of Large Hadron Collider
Ian Sample Science editor
05, Feb, 2024 @5:32 PM
‘What the heck is going on?’ Extremely high-energy particle detected falling to Earth
Amaterasu particle, one of highest-energy cosmic rays ever detected, is coming from an apparently empty region of space
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
24, Nov, 2023 @12:37 PM
Scientists find antimatter is subject to gravity
Tests at Cern refute suggestion that antigravity might apply to antimatter, showing instead it also falls downwards
Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
27, Sep, 2023 @4:31 PM
Scientists may be on brink of discovering fifth force of nature
Experts closing in on potentially identifying new force after surprise wobble of subatomic particle
Nicola Davis Science correspondent
11, Aug, 2023 @12:01 PM
Scientists seek out source of dark matter in Yorkshire
Britain has a chance to solve the universe’s ultimate mystery – if it can get global support for a project 3,000ft below ground in the UK
Robin McKie Science editor
06, Aug, 2023 @8:00 AM
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