Inside high-energy proton collisions, quarks and gluons briefly form a dense, boiling state before cooling into ordinary particles. Researchers expected this transition to change how disordered the ...

The selection is described as a "calming influence." The Pantone Color Institute has officially unveiled its 2026 Color of the Year. The Color Institute, a consulting service within Pantone, a design ...

A boiling sea of quarks and gluons, including virtual ones—this is how we can imagine the main phase of high-energy proton collisions. It would seem that particles here have significantly more ...

Ahead of Pantone’s December 4 announcement of its 27th Color of the Year, explore the complete history of selections that have shaped design trends and reflected our collective mood. Pantone will ...

Pantone has released a countdown clock for its annual Color of the Year announcement, set to be revealed on the morning of December 4. The color choice is widely used to shape decisions in numerous ...

ABSTRACT: The proton’s mass has long defied explanation through traditional quantum chromodynamics (QCD) models. Despite being composed of three valence quarks, their combined mass represents less ...

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 ...

John Lajoie is the Group Leader for the Relativistic Nuclear Physics Group within the Physics Division. His research seeks to understand the structure of matter at a fundamental level, delving into ...

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider will soon be smashing oxygen and neon atoms into other atoms of their own kind as part of its ATLAS experiment. The collisions will happen under enough heat and pressure ...