A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles—a new category of quantum particle—could be created in exotic materials.

Manuel Endres, professor of physics at Caltech, specializes in finely controlling single atoms using devices known as optical ...

Explore the fundamental components of an atom: protons, neutrons, and electrons. This video discusses why the traditional model of the atom is inaccurate, highlighting the unpredictable nature of ...

At CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), lead atom nuclei, accelerated in opposite directions, collide at speeds close to the ...

Most people have never heard of vacuum decay, but if it happened it would be the biggest natural disaster in the universe. If ...

This cataclysm would result from a change in the Higgs field, a quantum field that pervades all of space. It would be ...

A research team has achieved a significant breakthrough in determining fundamental properties of atomic nuclei. The team conducted laser spectroscopy experiments on muonic helium-3. Muonic helium-3 is ...

Scientists may have discovered the most powerful particle colliders in the universe — and they're strewn throughout our ...

There wasn't a lot of gold and it didn't last long, but the results are still impressive. For centuries, alchemists dreamed ...

MIT physicists have taken the first-ever direct images of individual atoms interacting freely in space. Their findings, ...