A particle proposed 50 years ago may be masquerading as a fraction of a neutrino. If so, it could help to explain the origins of dark matter, the mysterious, invisible stuff that makes up more than 80 ...

(A boson is one of two types of particle—the others are called “fermions”—distinguished by differences in their internal rotation. Photons are bosons; electrons are fermions.) These Goldstone bosons ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Despite physicists' fascination with the weird behavior of materials at extremely low temperatures -- 11 Nobel Prizes have been awarded in the area -- a unified explanation of materials like ...

Frank Close enjoys a journalistic account of the sociology and politics of the search for the elusive particle named after physicist Peter Higgs, but cautions that the idea has deeper roots than its ...