Research team includes astrophysicists, computer scientists, artists, and philosophers from UC Riverside, USC, and Carnegie ...

Understanding the universe's building blocks, the Standard Model categorizes particles and explains forces, yet leaves ...

As a central hub for scientific exploration, CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is dedicated to probing the enigmatic particles that could potentially elucidate the mystery of dark ...

The ion of the hydrogen molecule is ideally suited for making ultra-precise measurements of important physical constants.

The top quark’s extreme mass makes it decay almost immediately after it is produced. “The top and antitop quarks just have ...

The research, published in the academic journal Nature, represents an essential step in quantum computing and demonstrates its potential by directly simulating fundamental interactions with Google's ...

A new way of explaining gravity could bring us a step closer to resolving the heretofore irresolvable differences it has with quantum mechanics. Physicists Mikko Partanen and Jukka Tulkki at Aalto ...

“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

The question of what protons or neutrons are made up of has an apparently simple answer: quarks and gluons. However, when it ...