This progress means that, for the first time, complicated astrophysical events like shocks and turbulence can be studied in a ...

Quantum mechanics describes the unconventional properties of subatomic particles, like their ability to exist in a ...

The collisions will happen under enough heat and pressure to melt protons and neutrons and release their components (quarks ...

The spiritual view of life is trapped between two opposite words, physics and metaphysics, the study of the physical world and the study of what might lie beyond the physical. Given a choice ...

The idea of powering a house with a single atom might seem like science fiction, but recent advancements in nuclear physics ...

An atom consists of a heavy center, called the nucleus, made of particles called protons and neutrons. An atom has lighter particles called electrons that you can think of as orbiting around the ...

Subatomic particles such as quarks can pair up when linked by ‘strings’ of force fields — and release energy when the strings are pulled to the point of breaking. Two teams of physicists ...

Discover the fascinating world of particle physics — the most fundamental building blocks of the universe and the forces that connect them.

As if atoms weren’t already mind-blowingly small, never mind subatomic particles, CERN researchers in the CMS Collaboration were sifting through data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and ...

The lead isotope known as lead-208 was considered a “double magic” atom because of its subatomic particles —until the reveal of something completely unexpected.

Ken Bridges is a writer, historian and native Texan. He holds a doctorate from the University of North Texas. Bridges can be ...