UNSW engineers have made a significant advance in quantum computing: they created 'quantum entangled states'—where two ...

Knowable Magazine reports that neutrinos may help explain the universe's missing antimatter, shedding light on ...

The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago. If accurate, it’s a sign that the theories forming the foundation of modern particle physics don’t tell the whole story.

How often do black holes explode? New research refines old calculations, hinting that black hole explosions may be a ...

Whether as the protons and neutrons that help form chemical elements, the photons that we perceive as light or even the flows ...

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A new study suggests that many theorized heavy particles, if they exist at all, do not have the properties needed to explain the predominance of matter over antimatter in the universe. If confirmed, ...

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When it comes to talent, versatility and the power to change the world, which atomic particle is the champ? Read what our four contenders have to say—then you decide. Physics fans, are you ready to ...

Electrons are extremely round, and some physicists are not pleased about it. A new experiment captured the most detailed view of electrons to date, using lasers to reveal evidence of particles ...

Of all the subatomic particles that have any mass at all, the neutrino is the lightest by far. In comparison, the electron, itself a quantum featherweight, has a mass that is at least 500,000 times ...