Physicists created signs of primordial quark-gluon plasma by colliding oxygen and neon nuclei, much smaller nuclei than ...

Is the universe as stable as we think it is? That's one of the big questions that particle physicists worldwide are preparing ...

Scientists have proposed a new kind of subatomic particle to explain another particle’s mysterious disintegration. What just ...

The mystery centered on the muon, a short lived particle that resembles an electron but is about 200 times heavier. For more than 60 years, measurements of the muon's magnetic behavior appeared to ...

A tiny discrepancy in particle physics has loomed for decades as an exciting possible crack in one of science's most successful theories, hinting at unknown forces or quantum objects. Now, an ...

Scientists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider may be seeing the strongest hints yet of physics beyond the Standard Model — the decades-old theory that explains the fundamental particles and ...

(koto_feja/Getty Images) An important part of the Standard Model of particle physics, quantum chromodynamics describes the ...