Particle physics and cosmology
Colliders, neutrinos, dark matter, dark energy and the open questions about the universe.
- WikiCERNCERN is the European laboratory for particle physics near Geneva. Its members, the LHC, the 2026 strategy update and its role in projects worldwide.Updated
- WikiDESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument)DESI maps tens of millions of galaxies to measure dark energy. Its 2025 hint of evolving dark energy, its completed 2026 survey and what comes next.Updated
- WikiDeep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE)DUNE is a Fermilab-led neutrino experiment beaming neutrinos 1,300 km to South Dakota. Its goals, scale, 2026 construction status and first-beam target.Updated
- WikiFuture Circular Collider (FCC)The Future Circular Collider is CERN's proposed 90.7 km successor to the LHC. Its design, cost, the 2026 strategy decision and the funding question.Updated
- WikiLarge Hadron Collider (LHC) and High-Luminosity LHCThe Large Hadron Collider is CERN's 27 km particle collider. Its history, the Higgs discovery, the end of Run 3 in 2026 and the High-Luminosity upgrade.Updated
- WikiLIGO, Virgo and KAGRA gravitational-wave detectorsThe LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network detects gravitational waves from colliding black holes. Its O4 run, the record GW250114 signal and plans for 2026 onward.Updated
- WikiMuon g-2 experimentFermilab's Muon g-2 experiment measured the muon's magnetic anomaly to 127 parts per billion. What it found and why the anomaly faded in 2025.Updated
- AnalysisThe Hubble tension and evolving dark energy: is cosmology broken?Is the standard model of cosmology cracking? The evidence on the Hubble tension and DESI's evolving dark energy hint, and the competing explanations.Updated
- AnalysisAfter the LHC: the debate over the next big colliderShould Europe build the 15 billion franc Future Circular Collider? The evidence on cost, physics case, alternatives and China's CEPC as of October 2026.Updated
- ExplainerDark matter and dark energy, explainedWhat dark matter and dark energy are, how we know they exist, how scientists search for them, and what the 2025-26 DESI and LZ results showed.Updated
- ExplainerHow particle colliders workHow particle accelerators and colliders work: radiofrequency cavities, superconducting magnets, luminosity, detectors, and why physicists want bigger machines.Updated
- ExplainerHow the Standard Model of particle physics worksThe Standard Model in plain language: quarks, leptons, force carriers and the Higgs field, plus the gaps that physicists are trying to fill in 2026.Updated