In recent years, there have been attempts to describe the inside of a proton using quantum information tools, with partial ...

Physicists know from previous experiments that what happens at the nuclear scale to protons and neutrons also affects their ...

British philosopher Bertrand Russell said of the difference between our physical world experience and the scientific world of continually changing matter, “There is … some conflict between what common ...

I recently read a feature interview in Quanta Magazine of physicist Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University who studies the formation of protons and neutrons ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Earth’s magnetic field, generated by movements within its molten iron core, serves as a protective shield against solar winds ...

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider tested whether top quarks, the most massive known elementary particles, comply with ...

Hypernuclei remain a source of fascination due to their rarity in nature and the challenge of creating and studying them in ...

Theoretical physicist James D Bjorken, whose work played a key role in revealing the existence of quarks, passed away on ...

Scientists used the most massive fundamental particles to break special relativity, but even that didn’t work.

In the first study of its kind at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the CMS collaboration has tested whether top quarks adhere ...