Protons might be stretchier than they should be. The subatomic particles are built of smaller particles called quarks, which are bound together by a powerful interaction known as the strong force. New ...

Physics at the smallest scales is a challenge of observation: Particles are often fleeting, and the forces that govern their behavior are nearly imperceptible. But now, by exploiting decades-old data ...

On Tuesday the field of quantum mechanics received a thoughtful 100th-birthday present from the Royal Swedish Academy of ...

Irradiation with proton minibeams creates a highly heterogeneous dose distribution inside a rat’s head. (Courtesy: Sci. Reports 10.1038/s41598-018-34796-8/CC BY 4.0) High-grade gliomas such as ...

For almost a decade, physicists have been baffled by the so-called proton radium puzzle: using different methods of measurement, they obtained two numbers that are slightly yet significantly different ...

Setting the standard: NPL’s portable calorimeter provides a more accurate reference point for proton-beam dosimetry. (Courtesy: NPL) “PPRIG was set up by NPL in 2012 to progress UK deployment of ...

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The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 20, 2009 -- Proton therapy -- which uses beams of the subatomic particles to treat cancer -- is a hot topic at this year's American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) ...

How big is a proton? This doesn't sound like a very complicated question, but it's one that turned out to have the potential to wreck a lot of modern physics. That's because different methods of ...

The first randomized trial to compare photon- and proton-based radiation therapy for breast cancer finds that patients report ...