The $10 billion, 17-mile-long Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has lain dormant for two years while engineers revamped it to hurl particles at even greater speeds. Physicists think the near-light-speed ...

Once the most popular framework for physics beyond the Standard Model, supersymmetry is facing a reckoning—but many researchers are not giving up on it yet. The Standard Model of particle physics is ...

The future of the theory is in serious doubt. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony ...

A small band of particle-seeking scientists at Yale and Harvard has established a new benchmark for the electron’s almost perfect roundness, raising doubts about certain theories that predict what ...

Supersymmetry in a three-dimensional topological superconductor: Ising magnetic fluctuations (denoted by red arrows) at the boundary couple to the fermions (blue cone). UC Santa Barbara physicist ...

Awarding the Nobel Prize for physics to the scientists who kicked off a quest to find a theoretical subatomic particle brings the nearly 50-year story full circle — like the circular tunnel of the $10 ...

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of "Your Place in the Universe." Sutter contributed this article to ...

What would it feel like to be stuck inside a particle accelerator? That’s the scenario posed by Japanese sound artist Ryoji Ikeda in his hyper-sensory new solo exhibition supersymmetry. The ...

As the elegant theory of supersymmetry continues to fail experimental tests, physicists debate whether to change course and what the future holds for particle physics. As a young theorist in Moscow in ...

The rumored upcoming announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boson on July 4 would put in place the last major thread of the Standard Model of physics. This might sound like the case is closed on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Every so often, an idea comes along in theoretical physics that's ...

The absence of supersymmetry particles at the Large Hadron Collider has settled a 16-year-old bet among physicists. Abstractions navigates promising ideas in science and mathematics. Journey with us ...