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

There are more than 30,000 accelerators in the world today. While some of them—including LHC—are designed to unveil the universe’s secrets, the vast majority have far more Earthly purposes.

However, this particle is formed exclusively from a pair of true quarks and true antiquarks, which are considered the heaviest elementary particles in the Universe. According to physicists, toponium ...

The physics behind the tiniest particle in the Universe Particle accelerators help us understand what matter is made of.

A particle physics Standard Model (SM) was established 50 years ago, describing all known particles and their interactions. Are density distributions of the vast universe and the nature of ...

One contender for the smallest thing in the universe is the singularity at the center of a black hole. (Shown here, an artist's drawing of a black hole pulling gas away from a companion star ...

The answer to the enduring question of the smallest thing in the universe has evolved along with humanity. People once thought grains of sand were the building blocks of what we see around us ...

Astronomers have discovered a strangely tiny galaxy in the Milky Way’s neighborhood -- one with less than 1,000 stars held together by the smallest dark matter halo ever observed.

(LiveScience) The answer to the enduring question of the smallest thing in the universe has evolved along with humanity. People once thought grains of sand were the building blocks of what we see ...

The key test passed by sPHENIX to prove it is ready to measure the properties of quark-gluon plasma is called a "standard ...

Launch: The Max Planck–IAS–NTU Center (MPC) was officially inaugurated on September 1, 2025, in Taipei, Taiwan. A highlight of the ceremony was the formal exchange of the agreement, signed by Claudia ...