Strange Quark

Most of us, when we think about the Standard Model, think about the fundamental particles and forces that make up the Universe. That's not a bad thing; that's largely correct! Within the Standard…

How did everything begin? It's a question that humans have pondered for thousands of years. Over the last century or so, science has homed in on an answer: the Big Bang.This describes how the Universe was born in a cataclysmic explosion almost 14 billion years ago. In a tiny fraction of a second, th...

The newly found antiparticle, called antihyperhydrogen-4, could have a potential imbalance with its matter counterpart that may help scientists understand how our universe came to be.

Nobel prizewinning theoretical physicist Peter Higgs has died aged 94. He proposed the particle that gives other particles mass – now named the Higgs boson and discovered by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2012

Particle collisions offer a new way to study interactions of hyperon particles with ordinary nuclear building blocks, potentially giving insight into the properties of neutron stars. In a groundbreaking study, scientists at the RHIC observed the directed flow of hypernuclei during particle collis

New findings from Jefferson Laboratory shed light on the process of forming strange matter from ordinary matter. Nuclear physicists have made a groundbreaking discovery through their unique analysis of experimental data. For the first time ever, they have observed the production of lambda particles

The strong force holds our atoms together. Scientists may have observed its small-scale fluctuations for the first time

PSR J0952-0607, a so-called millisecond pulsar, has shredded and consumed nearly the entire mass of its stellar companion and, in the process, grown into the heaviest neutron star observed to date.

Today's post is for readers with a little science/math background: Last week, I explained, without technicalities, how the various elementary forces of nature can be inferred from the pattern…

Researchers announced three new exotic particles as the particle smasher restarts with unprecedented energy, further increasing the chance of discoveries.

A new biography of the physicist and the particle he predicted reveals his disdain for the spotlight

Theoretical physicists routinely introduce fictitious particles and fields in their calculations, in view of completing a theory or simply to make it more elegant. A striking example concerns the magnetic monopole imagined by Dirac in 1931: a point-like source of magnetic field, which is absent in classical electromagnetism. While the Dirac monopole was never observed in nature, it appears artificially in…

It's a potentially useful technique—and it's surprising that it works.

A new analysis of Large Hadron Collider data measures rare decays of the B meson that behave according to the standard model.

Nuclear physicists have observed something strange in the heart of an atom that defies existing science. They're on a mission to figure out why.

For the first time, researchers transformed light into a quantum crystalline structure to create a "supersolid" that's both solid and liquid at the same time. Here's what that means, and why it's such a big step forward.

A typically fragile quantum superposition has been made to last exceptionally long, and could eventually be used as a probe for discovering new physics

Physicists have detected a long-sought particle process that may suggest new forces and particles exist in the universe

Since its 2012 detection, the Higgs boson has fascinated researchers for its unique role in separating forces of nature. Find out how the "God" particle helps shape our universe.

Researchers investigate how cosmic fireballs might have created the rare antimatter particle detected in space.