The Standard Model (SM), the main physics framework describing elementary particles and the forces driving them, outlines key patterns in physical interactions referred to as gauge symmetries. One of ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

The Nature Index 2026 Research Leaders reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural sciences, health sciences, applied sciences and social sciences, according to their ...

On March 24, at the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference taking place in La Thuile, Italy, the LHCb collaboration at CERN reported a new milestone in our understanding of the subtle yet profound ...

For a long time, the scientific community has been puzzled by the dominance of matter over antimatter in the universe. CP violation is considered a crucial element in unraveling this cosmic mystery.

Dark matter remains one of the most intriguing components of the cosmos, making up about 27% of the universe's total mass-energy content. It cannot be seen directly, yet its presence is inferred ...

Something invisible holds the universe intact. It outweighs everything you can see—every star, every gas cloud, every galaxy—by a factor of five. We call it dark matter, and for decades, the standard, ...

Unexpectedly violent black holes may have caused the mystery of the missing cosmic matter. Most of the universe is filled with mysterious dark matter, but even ordinary matter has stumped cosmologists ...