Explore the standard model of particle physics and its implications as discoveries challenge long-held theories.

The standard model of particle physics is often illustrated as a simple grid showing the 17 basic particles (shown above). But an alternative way of visualising it reveals the complex rules that ...

Particle physicists have detected a novel decay of the Higgs boson for the first time, revealing a slight discrepancy in the predictions of the Standard Model and perhaps pointing to new physics ...

Might two bent crystals pave the way to finding new physics? The Standard Model of particle physics describes our world at its smallest scales exceptionally well. However, it leaves some important ...

Physics is full of weird particles that leave many of us scratching our heads. But these tiny particles make up everything in the quantum world and in us and are the basis of the fundamental ...

This excess of matter is not explained by the Standard Model and it existence is an important mystery in physics. In 1964, James Cronin, Valentine Fitch and colleagues at Princeton University in the ...

String theory attempts to unify all forces and particles in the universe using vibrating strings. It aims to explain the Standard Model of particle physics, which is incomplete. String theory ...

This week, this enormous scientific facility, ten years in the making, will begin its hunt for the most elusive particles in ...

This standard model paints a “crazy successful” picture of how the universe evolved from one second to 14 billion years old, despite the fact that 95 percent of the model’s contents are ...

To understand whether this is due to physics beyond the Standard Model or underestimated uncertainties, nuclear theorists laid out a new framework needed to extract the up-down quark flavor mixing ...