AI is searching particle colliders for the unexpected ...

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

Since the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, there has been ongoing research there into Higgs bosons and a search for traces of physics beyond the existing model of elementary particles. Scientists ...

String theory attempts to unify all forces and particles in the universe using vibrating strings. It aims to explain the Standard Model of particle physics, which is incomplete. String theory predicts ...