By: Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/18/2013 10:17 AM EDT on LiveScience Scientists think they've created the smallest d...

By: Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/16/2013 03:32 PM EDT on LiveScience A fundamental property of the rarest element on...

By: Megan Gannon, News Editor Published: 05/09/2013 03:09 PM EDT on LiveScience A particle storage ring spanning 50 feet (15 meters) in diameter i...

Stephen Battersby 08 May 2013 A lopsided atomic nucleus may help to refine nuclear theory. The stubby pear shape, described today in Nature1, may...

By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 05/03/2013 01:09 PM EDT on SPACE.com A new hunt for dark matter — an invisible but bountiful constituent of the un...

By: Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 04/30/2013 11:05 AM EDT on LiveScience When it comes to antimatter, what goes up doesn...

GENEVA -- Scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher have found further reasons for the apparent lack of antimatter in the universe. A team worki...

By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 04/22/2013 07:49 AM EDT on LiveScience The weird way entangled particles stay connected even wh...

By Zeeya Merali When the European Space Agency’s Planck mission team unveiled the most detailed map yet of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave bac...

By: Jesse Emspak, LiveScience Contributor Published: 04/16/2013 10:29 AM EDT on LiveScience The new generation of atom smashers such as the Large ...

By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience.com Senior Writer Published: 04/15/2013 03:06 PM EDT on SPACE.com DENVER — Hints of dark matter, the mysteri...

By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 04/13/2013 12:49 PM EDT on LiveScience DENVER — The discovery of the Higgs boson i...

GENEVA -- It is one of the cosmos' most mysterious unsolved cases: dark matter. It is supposedly what holds the universe together. We can't see it, bu...

By: Tia Ghose, SPACE.com Staff Writer Published: 04/03/2013 11:05 AM EDT on SPACE.com A massive particle detector mounted on the International Sp...

By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/28/2013 07:32 AM EDT on LiveScience Physicists at an underground laboratory have caught an ...

By: Live Science Staff Published: 03/25/2013 01:43 PM EDT on LiveScience Scientists say they've made the most precise measurements to date of the...

By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/15/2013 09:06 AM EDT on LiveScience Scientists have finally performed a famous experiment de...

GENEVA — It helps solve one of the most fundamental riddles of the universe: how the Big Bang created something out of nothing 13.7 billion year...

By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/13/2013 11:38 AM EDT on LiveScience Scientists have tentatively identified several particl...

By Lizzie Wade Back in 2008, physicists repeatedly assured us that a black hole produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was not going to swallow...

WASHINGTON — Physicists in Italy said Wednesday they are achingly close to concluding that what they found last year was the Higgs boson, the el...

By: Jesse Emspak, LiveScience Contributor Published: 02/21/2013 02:33 PM EST on LiveScience It's a good time to be a particle physicist. The lon...

By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 02/18/2013 09:48 AM EST on SPACE.com BOSTON — Big news in the search for dark matter may be coming in about two ...

By Irene Klotz BOSTON (Reuters) - Scientists are still sorting out the details of last year's discovery of the Higgs boson particle, bu...

By John Matson In a narrowly decided vote, an advisory panel to federal nuclear science agencies has recommended closing a particle collider at ...