The classical scientific theories by which we understand the world around us do not hold good at the subatomic level. There, ...

A CERN experiment has revealed that up quarks outnumber down quarks after certain collisions, defying predictions. This ...

An international team of scientists has identified an unexpected region of heavy, neutron-deficient isotopes in the nuclear chart where nuclear fission is predominantly governed by an asymmetric mode.

A n experiment has visualized a prediction about objects traveling at the speed of light known as the Penrose-Terrell Effect, first made over 60 years ago.

Quantum physics began in 1900 when the German physicist Max Planck determined the scale of quantum phenomena. In 1905, Albert ...

While attempting to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, physicists at Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) produced gold by accident. The surprising twist happened when lead atoms were ...

In collisions of argon and scandium atomic nuclei, scientists from the international NA61/SHINE experiment have observed a ...

Scientists in Europe have successfully simulated a process known as false vacuum decay, a hypothetical event that could one ...

Following a mineralogical tour of England in 1785 that included visiting chemical manufacturers, he entered Oxford as a ...

Olaf Massen is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics at Utrecht University, regularly works at the CERN particle accelerator and mentors the next generation of ...