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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers from Germany, Taiwan, and the United States join forces to unlock the mysteries of the Universe's origin and structureTheories describing ...

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 ...