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Evidence of Dark Matter Interacting With Itself in El Gordo Merger
The Standard Model of particle physics does a good job of explaining the interactions between matter's basic building blocks. But…
Weird! Measurement of W Boson Doesn’t Match Standard Model of Physics
A decade ago, physicists wondered whether the discovery of the Higgs boson at Europe’s Large Hadron Collider would point to…
Neutrinos Have Been Detected With Such High Energy That The Standard Model Can’t Explain Them
Although neutrinos are mysterious particles, they are remarkably common. Billions of neutrinos pass through your body every second. But neutrinos…
Physicists Don’t Know the Mass of a Neutrino, But Now They Know it’s No Larger Than 1 Electron Volt
The Standard Model of Particle Physics is one of science's most impressive feats. It's a rigorous, precise effort to understand…
What are Leptons?
According to the Standard Model of Particle Physics, all matter is composed is hadrons (which are made up of elementary…
What is the CERN Particle Accelerator?
Located beneath the border between France and Switzerland is the CERN Particle Accelerator, the largest instrument of its kind in…
What Is Bohr’s Atomic Model?
The Bohr atomic model (sometimes known as the Rutherford-Bohr atomic model) was a major milestone in the development of modern…
What is the Higgs Boson?
What is this thing we keep hearing about - the Higgs Boson, and why is it important? (more…)
Shape-shifting neutrinos earn physicists the 2015 Nobel
What do Albert Einstein, Neils Bohr, Paul Dirac, and Marie Curie have in common? They each won the Nobel prize in…
A Universe of 10 Dimensions
When someone mentions "different dimensions," we tend to think of things like parallel universes - alternate realities that exist parallel…