Francis Halzen, who was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics, found a new way to study neutrinos — by turning a block of ...

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole has won Francis Halzen the Nobel Prize for physics by opening a window ...

Francis Halzen won the prestigious award in physics because he pioneered a new method of detecting neutrinos and using them ...

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 ...

How does the Higgs give mass to particles? This video explains where most of an atom’s mass comes from and how the Higgs ...

As a central hub for scientific exploration, CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is dedicated to probing the enigmatic particles that could potentially elucidate the mystery of dark ...

In a rare global collaboration, scientists from Japan and the United States joined forces to explore one of the universe’s deepest mysteries — why anything exists at all. By combining years of data ...

When you push "start" on your microwave or computer, the device flips right on—but major physics experiments like the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would stay unexplained ...

A signal from the decay products of a meson—a quark and an antiquark—comes from two subatomic particles and not one, as previously thought. High-energy collision experiments have helped particle ...