Discover the fascinating world of particle physics — the most fundamental building blocks of the universe and the forces that ...

Javier Duarte kicked off his scientific career by witnessing the biggest particle physics event in decades. On July 4, 2012, scientists at the laboratory CERN near Geneva announced the discovery ...

now opened thanks to particle physics. What seems like science fiction is also being used to peer inside the pyramids in Egypt, chambers beneath volcanoes, and even treat cancer, says Professor ...

But Gian Giudice, head of CERN's theoretical physics department, said observing particles is only part of the job. "Particle physics does not simply want to understand the how—our goal is to ...

The price of big-ticket instruments like a space telescope or particle accelerator can be as high as $10 billion. And so this past June, the physics community began to consider what they want to ...