Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

Nature Research Intelligence Topics Topic summaries Physical Sciences Particle and High Energy Physics Particle Physics Particle physics seeks to understand the fundamental constituents of matter and ...

Workshops around the world train science teachers to incorporate particle physics into their classrooms. Picture this: A stationary object such as a vase suddenly explodes, sending fragments flying.

Welcome to this Physics World Particle & Nuclear Briefing bringing you the best of our recent coverage in these two areas. In this issue, we talk to Mark Thomson, who is set to take over running the ...

Particle physics seeks to understand the fundamental constituents of matter and the forces that govern their interactions. The field has evolved from early studies of protons, neutrons and electrons ...

Our best models can't explain why the mass-giving Higgs boson is so small. Resurrecting a 40-year-old idea could put this riddle and two others to rest CERN's recently restarted Large Hadron Collider ...