Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. In the 1960s and 1970s, the finishing theoretical touches were being ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Six years after discovering the Higgs boson, physicists have observed how the particle decays — a ...

From a couple of former Twitter product leaders comes a new — and in some ways very old — way of thinking about the news. From a couple of former Twitter product leaders comes a new — and in some ways ...

The double-slit experiment is one of the most famous experiments in physics and definitely one of the weirdest. It demonstrates that matter and energy (such as light) can exhibit both wave and ...

In the late 1940s, the physicists George Rochester and Clifford Butler 1 observed something unusual in their charged-particle detector. They were studying the interactions between high-energy cosmic ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

How do things work? To find out, we observe them and we take them apart. But not everything is easily observed, and until recently some things couldn’t be taken apart. It’s the culmination of a theory ...

A team led by former Twitter engineers is rethinking how AI can be used to help people process news and information. Particle.news, which entered into private beta over the weekend, is a new startup ...

I don't know about you, but ever since I started covering the Large Hadron Collider and other large-scale particle accelerators for ExtremeTech, I've always morbidly wondered: What would happen if a ...

So what is the site about? Particle Clicker is a game that lets players run their own simulated particle-physics experiment. It was created at CERN earlier this year during a 48-hour “hackathon” in ...