Discover the fascinating world of particle physics — the most fundamental building blocks of the universe and the forces that connect them.

With this simple assumption — each atom emitting or absorbing ... yet still arrive as individual particles. Werner Heisenberg then showed that it is fundamentally impossible to know at the same time ...

But are the nuclei of atoms really round? Intuitively this shape makes sense and physicists believed it aptly explained early ...

An international team of scientists has published a new report that moves toward a better understanding of the behavior of some of the heaviest particles in the universe under extreme conditions, ...

Subatomic particles such as quarks can pair up when ... The quantum state of each atom — a ‘qubit’ which could be excited or relaxed — represented the electric field at a point in space ...

We visit a University of Arizona lab where the world’s fastest electron microscope is capable of viewing subatomic particles in motion ... light on and off in an atom second time scale.

such as modeling the lifespans of nuclear reactors or simulating the interactions of subatomic particles in elements. “By harnessing advanced AI infrastructure, we empower our researchers to ...

The research was published June 3 in Physical Review Letters. Particle colliders smash protons and other subatomic particles into each other at nearly the speed of light, exposing the most fundamental ...

An aurora forms on Mars the same way as on Earth, with energetic charged particles colliding with atoms and molecules in the atmosphere, exciting them, and causing subatomic particles called electrons ...

Neutrinos are ghostly particles because they have very little mass and rarely interact with other forms of matter, making them very difficult to detect. Trillions of neutrinos are passing through ...

Although quantum field theory — the framework explaining how subatomic particles behave — is one ... In short, a model that physicists could actually test in real life. "The main advantages ...