Understanding the universe's building blocks, the Standard Model categorizes particles and explains forces, yet leaves questions about gravity and dark matter.

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A new LHCb analysis confirms a previously observed tension with the Standard Model, but more data and improved theoretical ...

Superheavy charged gravitinos may be the long-sought answer to dark matter. Dark Matter remains one of the biggest mysteries ...

String theory attempts to unify all forces and particles in the universe using vibrating strings. It aims to explain the Standard Model of particle physics, which is incomplete. String theory predicts ...

In nuclear beta decay an up quark ‘u’ in a proton converts into an up down quark ‘d,’ turning the proton into a neutron and emitting a positron and a neutrino. This work affects interpretation of beta ...

Pioneering work Illustration of how a proton collision (left) at the Large Hadron Collider creates a beauty baryon (centre) that then decays into products that are detected by LHCb (right). (Courtesy: ...

There is a new Physics model that challenges the standard Big Bang theory. By definition, “ The Big Bang ” is how astronomers explain the way the universe began. “The Big Bang” is the idea that the ...

Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe ...

Physicists claim they may have found a long-awaited explanation for dark energy, the mysterious force that's driving the accelerated expansion of the universe, a new preprint study hints. Their ...