Particle Physics

The New York Times's Dennis Overbye writes about the origins and purpose of Sesame (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East), a project spearheaded by former Member Eliezer Rabinovici, a theoretical physicist...

How does science work? . . . The scientific method—famously objective, logical and eminently reliable; and the fruits of its success, both pure and applied, are the single most obvious factor in distinguishing the varying levels of progress between...

In this month's "Quantized Column," Quanta Magazine's series in which top researchers explore the process of discovery, Frank Wilczek, Professor (1989–2000) and Member (1977–78) in the School of Natural Sciences and Nobel Laureate in Physics (2004)...

An unexpected connection has emerged between the results of physics experiments and an important, seemingly unrelated set of numbers in pure mathematics.

“If it were true that there were a group acting on the numbers coming from physics, that means...

Physicists, including Nima-Arkani Hamed, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, are confronting their “nightmare scenario.”