CERN, the world’s largest atom smasher, says it has observed three new "exotic particles" while carrying out its third run of collisions. After a three-year pause for maintenance and routine ...

It's an adventure through inner space! Dan Smith is going subatomic to find the smallest things possible, in your "Moment of Science".

From Democritus to Einstein, ... the concept of the atom was first mooted by the philosopher Democritus, ... were the first of a host of sub-atomic particles discovered during the 20th century.

1. The word “atom” comes from the Greek for “indivisible”, but they’re actually made up of many far smaller particles. Scientists have unpicked atoms and the forces that affect them to ...