Everything we see around us, from the ground beneath our feet to the most remote galaxies, is made of matter. For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current ...

The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's concept of multiple types of subatomic particles. (Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library) Forget about turtles; for all ...

Cosmic voids may seem like the emptiest places in the universe, stripped of matter, radiation, and even dark matter. But they’re far from nothing. Even in these vast empty regions, the fundamental ...

The complete circuit for measuring the number of particles created in an expanding universe. Credit: Scientific Reports (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-87015-6. A new study published in Scientific ...

Published in Physics Letters B, the study provides a new perspective for exploring the evolution of matter in the early universe. About 13.8 billion years ago, within a millionth of a second after the ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A powerful new particle accelerator that could be set up at Fermilab, a telescope to observe the oldest light in the universe, and research to learn more about mysteries such as dark ...