After decades of hunting, physicists still don’t know what makes up most of the universe’s matter. Now they need to cast a ...

Scientists in the US have utilized the Polaris supercomputer to generate the most detailed ...

Inside the Antimatter Factory at CERN, scientists are answering one of the oldest questions in science: Why is there ...

A University of Melbourne researcher has placed the strongest constraints yet on certain rare decays of subatomic particles, ...

"When my student showed me the data I thought she must be wrong," Boston College professor and lead researcher Kenneth Burch told Live Science. "It's not every day you find a new particle sitting on ...

A team of researchers has leveraged a supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory to ...

Our existence rests on a razor‑thin imbalance in the early cosmos. When the universe was young, matter and antimatter should have been created in equal amounts, poised to annihilate each other and ...

The scientific world has long known that atoms form the basic building blocks of matter, but CERN is interested in peering beyond the atom into the mesonic and baryonic soup that gives rise to matter ...

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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 ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is in the business of discovering new subatomic particles—and business is good. The team at CERN recently announced ...