Researchers say they are alarmed by reports that the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the largest U.S. funder of the ...

Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The ...

When fundamental particles are heavier or lighter than expected, physicists' understanding of the universe can tip into the ...

Welcome to the first Physics World Particle & Nuclear Briefing bringing you the best of our recent coverage in these two areas, including – of course – plenty on CERN, which is celebrating its 70th ...

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 ...

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Inside the nucleus of the atom, the building blocks of matter are anything but static. Individual particles are in a constant state of energetic motion, like dancers on a dance ...

Physicists have shown that particles produced in collimated sprays called jets retain information about their origins in subatomic particle smashups. Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE ...

Decades of weird experimental results appeared to support the existence of the sterile neutrino, a hypothetical particle that ...

Researchers have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors can also be used as highly accurate particle detectors, and they have found the optimal nanowire size for high detection ...

Neutrinos remain among the most intriguing particles in nature due to their elusive mass, weak interactions and pervasive presence in the cosmos. Recent experimental breakthroughs have enabled the ...

(Reuters) - The European Organisation for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, is the world's largest particle physics laboratory. Following is a brief history of CERN and its advances in particle physics ...