Surfer vs Nobel prize winner Left: Cjean42/CC BY-SA 3.0; Right: BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY By Jacob Aron At least one person is happy that the Large Hadron Collider hasn’t found anything recently. Garrett Lisi is an independent researcher who hit the headlines in 2007 as the “surfer physicist” with a potential theory of everything. […]

A particle collision from the ALEPH experiment that started in 1989 Jean-Luc Caron /CERN By Shannon Hall Could old colliders point to new discoveries? An energy excess spotted in data from a 20-year-old experiment suggests so. The bump hints at the existence of a previously undetected particle, which could change our understanding of physics. Then […]

Spot the baryon CERN/LHCb By Lisa Grossman A hint of matter and antimatter behaving differently to each other has been spotted in a new particle for the first time. If the find bears out, it could help explain the existence of all the matter in the universe, and why it was not snuffed out by […]

Extra dimensions hiding here SXS By Leah Crane HIDDEN dimensions could cause ripples through reality by modifying gravitational waves – and spotting such signatures of extra dimensions could help solve some of the biggest mysteries of the universe. Physicists have long wondered why gravity is so weak compared with the other fundamental forces. This may […]

The Earthworks combines romance with quantum theory Topher McGrillis/RSC By Stewart Pringle In 2015, writer Tom Morton-Smith took on the father of the atomic age with his hit play Oppenheimer, an epic biography of the obsessive and tormented scientist, which eventually transferred from the Royal Shakespeare Company to London’s West End. He returns to Stratford-upon-Avon […]