In physics, there are two great pillars of thought that don't quite fit together. The Standard Model of particle physics ...

Researchers are using machine learning, symbolic regression, and high-performance computing to explore and classify string ...

The Higgs boson’s decay into muons happens in only about one in every 5000 Higgs decays. So, the team had to search for a ...

Elementary particles are the smallest known building blocks of the universe. They are thought to have no internal structure, meaning that researchers think about them as zero-dimensional points ...

We have discovered legions of strange particles that seem to only have a ghostly existence inside materials. Even so, they ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in ...

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 ...

Quantum mechanics describes the unconventional properties of subatomic particles, like their ability to exist in a ...

A group of fundamental particles, long theorised but thought to be physically impossible, might exist after all. Known as paraparticles, they could one day have exotic applications if we ever ...

A new study from scientists at Rice University claims that "impossible particles" first theorized in the 1950s might actually be real.