Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The ...

CERN scientists have uncovered a new proton-like particle, the Ξcc+, revealing a heavier and long-predicted member of the ...

Scientists at CERN’s LHCb experiment have discovered a new particle made of two charm quarks and one down quark.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of an atomic nucleus with bright electron paths encircling it To study the inner workings of an atom's nucleus, ...

The masses of fundamental particles such as the Z and W bosons could have arisen from the twisted geometry of hidden dimensions, a new theoretical paper has demonstrated. The work has outlined a way ...

Scientists led by the University of Manchester have identified a new heavy doubly-charmed relative of the proton.

Tech billionaires have pledged as much as €860 million ($1 billion) to help fund CERN’s Future Circular Collider, the next-generation particle collider and the successor to the Large Hadron Collider, ...

When the universe first burst into being, all of space was a cosmic cauldron filled with a roiling, fiery liquid of fundamental particles heated to trillions of degrees. But this seething primordial ...

In 2023, a subatomic particle called a neutrino crashed into Earth with such a high amount of energy that it should have been impossible. In fact, there are no known sources anywhere in the universe ...

Europe's largest physics lab is planning to build a 91km tunnel beneath France and Switzerland — allowing it to smash tiny particles together with eight times more energy than before. The new tunnel ...