A boiling sea of quarks and gluons, including virtual ones—this is how we can imagine the main phase of high-energy proton ...

How the world of the smallest particles is structured, what is known about fundamental forces, and what particles have to do ...

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has shed light on the structure of "exotic" particles. These particles ...

Illustration of a tetraquark composed of two charm quarks and two charm antiquarks. (Image: CERN)To date, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has ...

Scientists have detected an unusual gamma-ray halo around our Milky Way galaxy. This signal, observed by NASA's Fermi ...

The supercollider is now being used to explore quantum phenomena, including a “magic” form of quantum entanglement.

Quantum computing has crossed a line that classical machines cannot easily follow, pushing simulations of matter and forces ...

Dr Sumedha Kotwal When we look deeply into matter, the solidity of the world begins to dissolve. What appears hard, tangible, ...

Quantum mechanics physics theory was born 100 years ago, thanks to Heisenberg's hay fever Guest Jay Howarth Senior Lecturer ...

Deep in the heart of the matter, some numbers don't add up. For example, while protons and neutrons are made of quarks, ...

For the past quarter-century, scientists using a particle collider on Long Island have been smashing the nuclei of gold atoms together at nearly the speed of light to create the hottest matter ever ...