On March 2, 1995, the top quark discovery at Fermilab was announced by scientists on the CDF and DZero collaborations, and the sixth and final quark was added to the Standard Model.

Physicists have struggled for seven decades with the question of why there is more matter in the universe than antimatter.

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Do top quarks, nature's heaviest elementary particle, obey Einstein's rules at all times of day and night? Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have the answer.

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There are six "flavors" of quark with increasing masses: up, down (found in protons and neutrons), charm, strange, top, and bottom. The heaviest of these is the top quark, possessing around the ...

The research team, led by Steven Dillmann of Stanford University was scouring decades-old data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory when it spotted a powerful (but brief) blast of X-rays coming ...

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