At every moment, subatomic particles stream in unfathomable numbers through your body. Each second, about 100 billion neutrinos from the sun pass through your thumbnail, and you’re bathed in a ...

Muons, like electrons, are subatomic particles that carry negative electrical charge; unlike electrons, muons decay after a few millionths of a second. Still, scientists readily encounter muons in ...

"This completes the picture of the subatomic constituents of matter," said Phil Yager, a physicist at UC Davis and a participant in the experiment. "It's really important to see that this thing does ...

Subatomic particles are best described with fuzzy math. We don't know exactly where an electron is — but we know the odds that it's at a certain point in a general area that is ringed by a boundary.

The new subatomic particle is called the beauty-lambda baryon.It belongs to a group of particles known as baryons, which include protons and neutrons. These particles are made of three quarks.

Predicting the properties of subatomic particles before their experimental discovery has been a big challenge for physicists. In a recent paper published on 28 July in Physical Review Letters ...

The subatomic particles are divided into three types, protons, neutrons and electrons. Protons A proton is a stable subatomic particle with a positive electric charge in the nucleus of an atom.

By measuring the momentum of the pions, researchers can get a picture of the density of the thing the photon bounced off of—in this case, the subatomic particles making up the ion’s nucleus.

Neutrinos are ghostly subatomic particles that can travel in a straight line for billions of light-years, passing unhindered through galaxies, stars and anything else in their path.

Muons are subatomic particles that are similar to electrons but around 200 times heavier. At high energy, they can easily travel through hundreds of yards of solid rock.