Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.

Scientists from CERN have measured the speed of sound in the quark-gluon plasmas with record precision, a key step to ...

Explore the universe's mysterious quark stars! Learn how these exotic objects, composed of free quarks, could reveal secrets about gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, and the very origins of our cosmos.

What happens when the smallest building blocks of matter refuse to play by the rules of traditional physics? For decades, ...

John Peoples was asked in the mid-1990s about the value of doing pure scientific research — that which has no predetermined ...