Quantum particles have a social life, of a sort. They interact and form relationships with each other, and one of the most ...

Researchers working on China's fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have experimentally ...

The final episode of fifth season of the Netflix series Stranger Things is out this week, and the concept of a wormhole ...

The theorized unseen structure of spacetime could also explain of the outstanding questions about the accelerating expansion ...

Physicists have long treated mass as a basic ingredient of nature, something particles simply possess, even as the Higgs ...

Scientists suggest a mysterious ultraviolet glow across the Milky Way may come from dark matter nuggets, hinting that the universe’s invisible matter might not be completely dark.

At the heart of every atomic nucleus, the strong interaction quietly dictates the structure of matter, yet for decades one of its simplest products refused to fit the script. The way fragile “light ...

An international research team, including Korean scientists, has measured the precise properties of a 'tetraquark,' a particle made of four quarks, for the first time. Credit: Getty Images Bank An ...

View of the open CMS detector, one of the four major experiments of the Large Hadron Collider.CERN Researchers at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have detected a phenomenon that happens only every ...

Our account of the strong nuclear force is full of imaginative terms. Six flavors of quarks have color charges of red, green and blue, which dictate how they bind to form particles like protons and ...

The Standard Model, depicting the fundamental building blocks of the universe, including top quarks. Courtesy of Cush via Wikimedia Commons Sitong An, a physicist at Carnegie Mellon University, has ...