Scientists have released the most detailed analysis yet of how protons and neutrons acquire their mass, solving a decades-long puzzle that the Nobel Prize-winning Higgs mechanism could not explain.

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Neutron stars are the densest observable objects in the universe. A new Finnish Centre of Excellence investigates them with a combination of astrophysics, particle physics, nuclear physics and ...

A new estimate of the ghostly particle’s maximum possible mass brings physicists a tad closer to understanding the universe. By Katrina Miller Katrina Miller studied neutrinos in graduate school, but ...

This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. What does it take to launch into space? Other ...

This recent video from North Korean state television showing soldiers performing feats of strength was impressive; it included hand-to-hand combat, breaking boards, smashing through bricks, and it ...

Roger Jones receives funding from STFC. I am a member of the ATLAS Collaboration As a physicist working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, one of the most frequent questions I am asked is ...