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

An old puzzle in particle physics has been solved: How can quantum field theories be best formulated on a lattice to ...

Several years ago, scientists discovered that a single microscopic particle could rock back and forth on its own under a ...

A century ago, Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking ...

A strange, glowing form of matter called dusty plasma turns out to be incredibly sensitive to magnetic fields. Researchers found that even weak fields can change how tiny particles grow, simply by ...