The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

Physicist Professor Peter Higgs theorised about, and won the Nobel Prize for, the Higgs boson. But what is the elusive subatomic particle – which has also been called the “God particle” – and what ...

Physicist Professor Peter Higgs theorised about, and won the Nobel Prize for, the Higgs boson. But what is the elusive subatomic particle – which has also been called the “God particle” – and what ...

What is everything made of? It’s the fundamental question that lies at the heart of particle physics. Today, scientists are using gigantic, atom-smashing particle accelerators to probe deeper into the ...

The Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB accelerator measures particle interactions with extreme precision. Collisions of electron and positron beams create the high-energy environment needed to ...

The Belle II experiment has recently made precise measurements of the lifetime of subatomic particles called quarks and leptons (such as electrons and neutrinos). These particles are believed to be ...

Our existence rests on a razor‑thin imbalance in the early cosmos. When the universe was young, matter and antimatter should ...

It’s the most energetic particle of its kind ever discovered, and scientists have no idea where it came from. By Katrina Miller Katrina Miller studied neutrinos of much lower energies at the ...