A new calculation helps narrow down the mass of the W boson, one of the heaviest fundamental particles in the universe ...

Measurement of W boson particle mass confirms Standard Model of physics and reignites the search for other particles.

When fundamental particles are heavier or lighter than expected, physicists' understanding of the universe can tip into the ...

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The concept of entanglement links far-flung particles. That relationship can prove that someone is in the location they claim ...

In the last few weeks I've been working on a slightly more formal version of this post on black-body radiation for use in something else. One of the tricky things in writing about the development of ...

The 50-foot-wide racetrack used to study muons traveled by barge around Florida and up the Mississippi, and then by truck across Illinois. Reidar Hahn, Fermilab About 50 years ago, physicists came up ...

A U.S. research lab has announced one of the most precise measurements ever of how a subatomic particle behaves, teeing up a showdown that could either vindicate one of science’s most powerful ...