CERN's ALICE experiment has resolved the puzzle of deuteron formation, showing that most deuterons form via resonance-driven ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Ready to go: the Belle II experiment will run on Japan's SuperKEKB accelerator. (Courtesy: KEK) The first electron–positron collisions occurred at an upgrade to one of Japan’s premier particle-physics ...

“The dream of medieval alchemists has technically come true,” reports Uliana Dmitrieva of the ALICE collaboration, noting the unexpected breakthrough at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In a ...

Heavy collisions Artist’s impression charged particle tracks streaming from a collision of two uranium nuclei overlaid on a sketch of the STAR detector at RHIC. The incoming uranium nuclei are shown ...

Ideas of high-energy particle physics have been borrowed for a device that might bring insight into fundamental questions of chemical physics — the molecular synchrotron. A whole number of ...

A new exhibit reveals what happens when artists visit labs to hear physicists explain their work. Conceived by UC Santa Cruz physics lecturer Stephanie Bailey, The Fusion of Art and Physics features ...