Protons and other subatomic particles that are subject to the strong nuclear force have a complex structure that involves ...

For decades, scientists have been looking for evidence of strings that connect everything in the universe. A new model offers ...

Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to understand. Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli brings to the problem a perspective ...

A new analysis of data from the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveals fresh evidence that collisions of even very small nuclei with large ones might create tiny ...

The research was done by Caltech’s Clifford Cheung and Aaron Hillman along with Grant Remmen at New York University. They ...

Science is always looking for more computing power and more efficient tools capable of answering its questions. Quantum ...

Don Lincon, a senior scientist at the U.S. particle physics laboratory Fermilab, describes bosons as “puppies of the subatomic world” because you can have an unlimited number of bosons in the same ...

Don Lincon, a senior scientist at the U.S. particle physics laboratory Fermilab ... and representation theory to create mathematical models of dense matter systems, and found that these ...

Contemporary physics still wrestles with a question posed by philosophers millenia ago: What is the universe made of?

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a narrowly missed midair collision between a United flight and a Delta flight at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Saturday ...

Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) have found new evidence that collisions of small nuclei with large ...

Particle physics is the study of the elementary ... Here, the BESIII Collaboration reports its observation in e+e- collision data, exploiting machine-learning-based identification techniques.