An obscure theory of elementary particles proved to be key to China’s re-emergence as a scientific nation after the Cultural ...

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

If photons possess more quantum states than expected, it would overhaul our understanding of all particle physics – and now physicists have identified a way to test this radical idea in an experiment.

For over ten years, physicists pursued a mysterious particle that could have upended modern physics. Now, researchers say it simply doesn’t exist.