What happens when the smallest building blocks of matter refuse to play by the rules of traditional physics? For decades, ...

Scientists from the CMS collaboration at CERN have measured the speed of sound in the quark-gluon plasmas with record ...

John Peoples was asked in the mid-1990s about the value of doing pure scientific research — that which has no predetermined ...

30 Miles Up. Arguing that others may have been quark hunting in the wrong places, British Physicists J. B. Hasted and M.R.C. McDowell have suggested a new area of search.

Researchers from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences have developed a new model incorporating quark-gluon interactions while accounting for nucleon pairing. This ...

Unwilling to wait, McCusker’s team set up a more simple quark trap in a shed behind the University of Sydney’s school of physics. Whenever Geiger counters detected a cosmic shower, they ...

Evidence grows for deconfined quark matter in neutron-star cores “I definitely find the data convincing,” says theorist Ralf Rapp of Texas A&M University; “There used to be a disconnect between very ...

Jamie Nagle: My current research is in the field of experimental high-energy heavy ion physics.The current theory of strong interactions (quantum chromodynamics QCD) predicts that nuclear matter at ...

Jung and many of his colleagues on the CMS experiment were in Traverse City, Michigan, at the 2023 International Workshop on Top Quark Physics. Jung was listening attentively as physicists announced ...

NORMALLY, creating a universe isn’t the job of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Most of the back-breaking science—singling out and tracking Higgs bosons, for example—from the world’s ...