While gluons are responsible for generating most of the visible mass in the universe, their role inside nuclei remains poorly ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has begun its first-ever collisions of oxygen ions, in the latest attempt to understand the ...

What happens when the smallest building blocks of matter refuse to play by the rules of traditional physics? For decades, ...

Quirks & Quarks features our ever-popular listener question show, where we find experts to answer your questions. But here are ten mysteries that science has yet to answer.

In the world of particle physics, where scientists unravel the mysteries of the universe, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are making waves with how they're increasing ...

Scientists from CERN have measured the speed of sound in the quark-gluon plasmas with record precision, a key step to ...

This includes leptons (such as the electron), the quarks that make up protons and neutrons, and gauge bosons, which mediate forces between the other particles.

India’s National Quantum Mission leverages nuclear legacy to lead in quantum computing, communication, sensing, and deep-tech ...

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.

On June 11, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine announced the result of a three-year study to set a ...