The early Universe was a strange place. The Universe was so dense and hot that atoms and nuclei could not form—they would be ripped apart by high-energy collisions. Even protons and neutrons could not ...

For a few millionths of a second after the big bang, quarks could move freely, but soon normal matter "froze out" of this quark-matter soup. For the first time scientists have compared quantum theory ...

Quarks, the elementary units of matter found in every atomic nucleus, are surprisingly comfortable in large crowds. Two particles discovered at the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, near Geneva are each ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the first joint result from the world's two leading particle colliders, scientists have ...

The Higgs boson appeared again at the world's largest atom smasher — this time, alongside a top quark and an antitop quark, the heaviest known fundamental particles. And this new discovery could help ...

Long theorized but never confirmed, quark stars could be the densest objects in the universe — stranger even than neutron ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Using the most powerful particle collider in the world, a research ...

Astronomers recently announced that they have found a novel explanation for a rare type of super-luminous stellar explosion that may have produced a new type of object known as a quark star.

Physicists at accelerators in Japan and the United States have detected a subatomic particle that may be unlike any seen before. Some evidence suggests that the particle contains two pairs of more ...

If you haven’t read the news recently, there is a bit of a problem with the education system in the United States—especially when it comes to fields that fall outside of the humanities. The US is ...

Scientists have determined the mass of the heaviest elementary particle, the top quark. The measurement was made using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and the Tevatron ...

In the first joint result from the world's two leading particle colliders, scientists have determined the mass of the heaviest elementary particle, the top quark. The measurement was made using the ...