Particles as different as soap bubbles and ball bearings can be made to arrange themselves in exactly the same way, according ...

All the matter we know of in the Universe is made up of Standard Model particles. Photons and neutrinos zip through the Universe all the time, far outnumbering all the other particles. Normal, ...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would stay unexplained ...

"There are two kinds of people: 'Nothing but' and 'Something more.' " So said an old Jesuit spiritual director. Brilliant science teacher and world-renowned theoretical physicist Brian Greene is a ...

Discovered in 1995, the top quark is the most massive elementary particle that exists, outweighing even the Higgs boson. Because of its atypical size as compared to other quarks, scientists were ...

Annika Seppälä is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago. She has previously received research funding from the European Council and the Academy of Finland. University of Otago provides funding ...

A research team has previously shown that fatty particles from the bloodstream may boost the growth of breast cancer cells. They now show that through an unexpected mechanism not previously described ...

Physicist Richard Feynman invented them to describe the interactions between real particles. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space ...