For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current theories, matter and its counterpart, ...

They directly stem from the Higgs mechanism, revealing the initial code of the universe's transition from chaos to order. Looking back to the moment of the universe's birth, electromagnetic force and ...

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There could be a 90 percent chance that in the next decade, astronomers will spot a deep space explosion that confirms ...

A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants ...

Dark energy —the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe's greatest mysteries ...

For more than two decades, astronomers have wrestled with one of the biggest mysteries in science: what is driving the ...

Over the past 25 years, the IPPP has published more than 1,600 research papers with an average citation count exceeding 100 – an exceptional marker of academic influence.

Our Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology (IPPP) will celebrate its 25th anniversary next week, recognising a quarter-century of innovative ...

Neutrinos are one of the most enigmatic particles in the standard model. The main reason is that they're so hard to detect.