Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though ...

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

Two ghostlike particles, neutrinos and photons, are emerging as unlikely combatants in a quiet revolution in physics. New ...

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

At TU Wien, researchers have discovered a state in a quantum material that had previously been considered impossible. The ...

An analysis of several experiments aimed at detecting the mysterious neutrino has identified a hint of a crack in the ...

The particle in question, known as a sterile neutrino, was supposed to only interact with gravity and have zero interactions ...

Once a surprise to physicists, these particles are useful tools inside and outside the realm of particle physics.

On 7 November 2025, the Austrian Academy of Sciences inaugurated the Marietta Blau Institute for Particle Physics.

"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

New results from the MicroBooNE experiment rule out the existence of a sterile neutrino, reshaping how scientists think about ...