Charge-parity violation is thought to explain why there’s more matter than antimatter in the universe. Scientists just spotted it in a new place.

Wojciech Brylinski was analyzing data from the NA61/SHINE collaboration at CERN for his thesis when he noticed an unexpected ...

Masaki Kashiwara is the first Japanese person to be awarded the most prestigious prize in mathematics. Mathematician Masaki ...

Supersymmetry, long considered the golden child of theoretical physics, has officially lost its luster at the world’s ...

A large and unexpected excess of top quark pairs has the physics community excited, but the interpretation is still up for ...

Perplexingly, the amount of CP violation predicted by the Standard Model is many orders of magnitude too small to account for ...

Physics and poetry both distil complexity into clarity. Learn how poetic structure can shape and express scientific ideas.

Experiments in high-energy physics have demonstrated the complete symmetry between particles and antiparticles. A novel theory of the universe that takes this basic symmetry into account is advocated ...

Theoretical physicists from Kavli IPMU have demonstrated that any non-invertible symmetry operation in theoretical physics is a quantum operation. This establishes a close relationship between the ...

Physicists have long been fascinated by the concept of symmetry breaking, a fundamental principle in physical sciences that ...