“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

At the Max Planck–IAS–NTU Center for Particle Physics, Cosmology, and Geometry researchers from Germany, Taiwan, and the ...

New research suggests that there is a 90% chance that within the next decade, humanity could use a space or Earth-based ...

Our universe is dominated by a mysterious matter known as dark matter. Its name comes from the fact that dark matter does not absorb, reflect or emit electromagnetic radiation, making it difficult to ...

A hidden family of "ghost particles" may be responsible for all the dark matter in the universe — and the reason that there is any matter at all, a recent preprint study suggests. One of the most ...

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

Scientists recently fired up the world's smallest particle accelerator for the first time. The tiny technological triumph, which is around the size of a small coin, could open the door to a wide range ...

Information could become the fifth state of matter alongside gas, plasma, liquid, and solid states. A scientist has proposed ...

The NHTI Film Society will screen “Particle Fever,” about particle physics and the Hadron collider in Switzerland, at 7 p.m. Friday in the Sweeney Auditorium on the Concord campus. The documentary ...

Lucien Heurtier works for King's College London. Lucien Heurtier's work is supported in part by the U.K. Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) under GrantST/X000753/1 Although our universe ...

A physicist, a composer and a creative technician team up to translate the unseen particles around us into a format that human bodies can understand. During his postdoc, particle physicist Teppei ...