Scientists from collaborations at Fermilab, CERN and Brookhaven National Laboratory have won the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in ...

A decade-long effort to measure one of physics’ most fundamental constants culminates in a moment of uncertainty and revelation.

A special class of sensors leverages quantum properties to measure tiny signals at levels that would be impossible using ...

After a 10-year effort, physicists got a value for “Big G” that does not settle the debate over one of nature’s hardest ...

For a few years, one of particle physics’ most unsettling numbers seemed to be pointing somewhere strange. The trouble ...

In 2021, the first result from the Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab confirmed a two-decade-old measurement from Brookhaven, ...

A thumbnail-sized diamond chip just pulled off something that quantum physics says should be extraordinarily difficult: ...

A new calculation helps narrow down the mass of the W boson, one of the heaviest fundamental particles in the universe ...

When hundreds of physicists gathered on a Zoom call in late February to discuss their experiment’s results, none of them knew what they had found. Like doctors in a clinical trial, the researchers at ...

The 50-foot-wide racetrack used to study muons traveled by barge around Florida and up the Mississippi, and then by truck across Illinois. Reidar Hahn, Fermilab About 50 years ago, physicists came up ...

Just over a week ago, European physicists announced they had measured the strength of gravity on the smallest scale ever. In a clever tabletop experiment, researchers at Leiden University in the ...

A neglected force produced by neutrinos and other particles helps atomic physics measurements align with predictions of the ...