She calculated that collisions involving three different types of subatomic particles would all produce the same wreckage. It was like laying a grid over maps of London, Tokyo, and New York and ...

Strange particles that have mass when moving one direction but no mass when moving in another were first theorised more than a decade ago. Now, these mass-shifting particles have been glimpsed in ...

The collapse of the core forces electrons and protons together, creating a sea of particles called neutrons. This material is so dense that a mere sugar cube's worth of neutron star matter would ...

Quantum entanglement is a fascinating, counterintuitive phenomenon where two subatomic particles remain deeply connected, even if separated by billions of light-years. A change in one particle ...

Earth is subject to a constant bombardment of subatomic particles that can reach energies far higher than the largest machines A photomicrograph shows where high-energy electrons blazed through a film ...

Accelerators were invented in the 1930s to provide energetic particles to investigate the structure of the atomic nucleus. Since then, they have been used to investigate many aspects of particle ...