For nearly a century, scientists have understood how crystalline materials—such as metals and semiconductors—bend without ...

Physicists have found evidence of X particles in the quark-gluon plasma produced in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, based near Geneva, ...

In a South Dakota cavern, scientists are working to capture the most elusive particles in the universe. The North Cavern of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, in the Sanford Underground ...

Small particles from tires inhibited the growth and caused adverse behavioral changes in organisms found in freshwater and coastal estuary ecosystems, two new research papers found. Small particles ...

O nce upon a time, cholesterol was simple. This molecule, it was proclaimed, came in two varieties: an artery-clogging “bad” ...

The elusive particle that physicists knew had to to exist, but took half a century to find. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

If you’re superstitious, a black cat in your path is bad luck, even if you keep your distance. Likewise, in quantum physics, particles can feel the influence of magnetic fields that they never come ...

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

Breaking the rules is exciting, especially if they have held for a long time. This is true not just in life but also in particle physics. Here the rule I'm thinking of is called “lepton flavor ...

Dark matter is one of the great enigmas of the universe and, in efforts to determine its existence and nature, a new study ...