particle-physics

How detecting neutrinos from the sun revealed fundamental physics mysteries

Magnetism in everyday life comes from dipoles (north and south poles). If magnetic monopoles existed — isolated magnetic charges with no opposite pole — they would reshape physics, revolutionize particle accelerators, and potentially enable new technologies like monopole-powered engines.

The LHC is a 26,659-meter ring of superconducting magnets that smashes protons together to test the Standard Model. Here is how it works, what it found, and what it is still hunting.

For every particle of matter, physics predicts a mirror twin made of antimatter. We make it, store it, and use it in medicine — but we still don't know why the universe has so little of it.