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 and ...

Scientists have used CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to uncover what they say is an entirely new type of particle, dubbed ...

Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The ...

A beam of electrons crossed just a few millimeters of plasma, then helped trigger an effect that usually belongs to massive ...

To test if antimatter can be safely transported, a team of scientists loaded antiprotons into a specially prepared truck.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A powerful new particle accelerator that could be set up at Fermilab, a telescope to observe the oldest light in the universe, and research to learn more about mysteries such as dark ...

A team affiliated with IPhT (CEA/CNRS) in France and the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona argues that, within a standard ...

A new study suggests that faint, ancient ripples in spacetime may hold the key to one of physics’ greatest mysteries.

The collective gravity of countless neutrinos gently irons out the wrinkles in the cosmic web, preventing matter from ...

Recently, I watched a fellow particle physicist talk about a calculation he had pushed to a new height of precision. His tool? A 1980s-era computer program called FORM. Particle physicists use some of ...