Physicists have long treated mass as a basic ingredient of nature, something particles simply possess, even as the Higgs ...

A new measurement by CERN’s ATLAS Collaboration has strengthened evidence that the masses of fundamental particles originate through their interaction with the Higgs field. Building on earlier results ...

In our everyday experience, if you push something, it moves away from you. But objects with negative mass would turn that basic principle on its head and accelerate towards you instead. It sounds like ...

For decades physicists have been working on a beautiful theory that has promised to lead to a deeper understanding of the quantum world. Now they stand at a crossroads: prove it right in the next year ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Invisible dark matter makes up most of the mass in the universe, far outweighing the amount of ...

Household gadgets have a way of sounding scarier than they are once someone attaches a giant number to them. The claim that a ...

Physicists have designed the first device to create particles with charged negative mass. The breakthrough could lead to an entirely new way to generate laser light using only a tiny amount of energy.

Scientists have struggled for decades to identify the constituent particles of dark matter, but they’ve had little to show for all their efforts. A new study at Case Western Reserve University is now ...