For the first time, by studying quantum correlations between triplets of secondary particles created during high-energy ...

When high-energy radiation interacts with water in living organisms, it generates particles and slow-moving electrons that ...

A team at CERN has reported the observation of a new type of particle made up of four quarks. This discovery could enhance ...

The adage goes “like mother like daughter,” and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words were never spoken. She was the ...

Physicists at the world's largest particle accelerator have made a first-of-its-kind discovery about antimatter that could help solve one of the universe's biggest mysteries. The discovery — made at ...

With five more protons than should be stable, the newly discovered nitrogen-9 isotope sits right on the borderline of physical possibility. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The periodic table is one of the triumphs of science. Even before certain elements had been discovered, this chart could successfully predict their masses, densities, how they would link up with other ...

Scientists at Lund University in Sweden announced yesterday that experiments they had conducted confirmed the existence of a new element with the atomic number of 115, the heaviest ever discovered.