Michael Riordan has spent decades ruminating on the history of physics, including events he participated in himself.
The podcast ‘Does It Fly?’ asks whether the technology of Star Trek, Doctor Who and other popular sci-fi shows could really work.
The atomic nucleus is made up of protons and neutrons, particles that exist through the interaction of quarks bonded by ...
In collisions between protons at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), pairs of top quarks—the heaviest known elementary particles ...
A team of physicists say they have created the first coherent picture of atomic nuclei from their composite particles, quarks and gluons. The 20th century was a pretty busy hundred years for particle ...
In collisions between protons at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), pairs of top quarks – the heaviest known elementary particles – are frequently produced along with other heavy quarks, including ...