Protons and neutrons—the building blocks of matter—belong to a huge class of particles called hadrons. Hadrons are composite ...

Physicists discover the smallest quark-gluon plasma droplet behaving as a fluid, exploring the transition between fluid and ...

The brain rewires itself to multitask, fast animals experience time in slow motion, an archival excerpt about a Russian space ...

The new CMS study examined collisions between oxygen nuclei, which are much smaller than lead nuclei. Oxygen contains just 16 ...

Physicists searching for a better understanding of quantum gravity stumbled upon something unexpected: the defining signatures of string theory.

Particles of light cannot be divided into smaller particles, but if you try to snip off the end of one, instead of shortening ...

Imagine stars so exotic that when they merge they produce gold, and as well emit signals so precise that they may one ...

Our best model of the cosmos has a glaring mathematical problem, but we may have found an answer.

Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles — the standard model of particle physics — must be incomplete, because there are a host of phenomena it cannot ...

According to quantum field theory—which is thought to be the most successful theory in all of physics for its ability to ...

Quantum field theory says true nothingness doesn’t exist; even a vacuum teems with energy fields that help create matter and ...