Describing matter under extreme conditions, such as those found inside neutron stars, remains an unsolved problem. The ...

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A mysterious excess of far-ultraviolet light seen across the Milky Way could come from the annihilation of clumpy dark matter ...

Smaller than an atom, but majorly important: introducing the quark! Quarks helped make sense of particle physics, and we'll ...

An international research team including Korean scientists has measured the precise properties of a 'tetraquark,' a particle made of four quarks, for the first time. Quarks are the smallest elementary ...

How the world of the smallest particles is structured, what is known about fundamental forces, and what particles have to do with the Big Bang ...

Illustration of a tetraquark composed of two charm quarks and two charm antiquarks. (Image: CERN) To date, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has discovered 80 particles. The most famous is the ...

Deep in the heart of the matter, some numbers don't add up. For example, while protons and neutrons are made of quarks, nature's fundamental building blocks bound together by gluons, their masses are ...

Probing ever deeper into the inner world of the atom, nuclear physicists have uncovered an increasingly baffling collection of tiny particles. Besides the familiar neutrons, electrons and protons, ...