Astronomers recently announced that they have found a novel explanation for a rare type of super-luminous stellar explosion that may have produced a new type of object known as a quark star.

EVENT: Physicists from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), the only operating collider in the U.S., located at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, and the Large ...

In a never-before-seen particle, four quarks of a feather flock together. Physicists think they have detected the first conglomerate of four quarks incorporating more than two of the same kind. This ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Physicist Murray Gell-Mann, one of the ...

When Evan Coleman was wrapping up his undergraduate studies in physics at Brown University, he wanted to find something special to give his mentor, Meenakshi Narain. “How do you get a gift for someone ...