Physicists just discovered a brand-new particle that appears to be an exotic cousin to the protons and neutrons that make up ...

Researchers at CERN have announced a new particle that is like a slightly heavier version of the proton. This new particle, ...

A view inside a proton moving at nearly the speed of light toward the viewer with its spin pointing horizontally shows differences in the spatial distributions of the momentum of up (left) and down ...

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 ...

The LHCb experiment at CERN has detected the Ξcc⁺ – a proton-like particle with two charm quarks and four times the proton ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

In their search for more flavors of Higgs bosons, a team of researchers at CERN stumbled across what could be evidence of the smallest matter-antimatter particle ever. The hypoethical particle, known ...

An artist’s impression of a newly predicted six-quark state (dibaryon) consisting of two baryons. Credit: 2021 Keiko Murano An artist’s impression of a newly predicted six-quark state (dibaryon) ...

In collisions of argon and scandium atomic nuclei, scientists from the international NA61/SHINE experiment have observed a clear anomaly indicative of a violation of one of the most important ...

Some neutron stars probably have something strange lurking in their cores, according to a recent study. Neutron stars are already some of the most peculiar objects in the universe. They contain enough ...