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 ...

Reviews the history of optical trapping and manipulation of small-neutral particles, from the time of its origin in 1970 up to the present. As we shall see, the unique characteristics of this ...

A physicist proposes that time has three dimensions instead of one, which could finally unite quantum mechanics and ...

Online wear particle detectors have been widely studied due to their ability to monitor the wear state of machines, and to help to prevent serious mechanical failures caused by excessive wear of ...

Smashing atomic nuclei together at mind-bending speeds recreates the fiery conditions of the early universe and scientists ...

There are a number of techniques currently used by the pharmaceutical industry for particle size determination. However, most of these are applicable in a visible particle range (> 25 μm) and are ...

Scientists Produced a Particle of Light That Simultaneously Accessed 37 Different Dimensions It’s got us beat by 34.

For now, the most likely explanation is that the particle is just a high-energy neutrino, but we’re likely to learn more about these elusive particles when KM3NeT is fully online.