Scientists saw a quark plowing through primordial plasma for the first time, offering a rare look at the first moments after ...

UPTON, NY--Nuclear physicists from around the world seeking to understand the intricate details of the building blocks of visible matter are meeting in Venice, Italy, May 13-19, to discuss the latest ...

What happens when the smallest building blocks of matter refuse to play by the rules of traditional physics? For decades, atomic nuclei have posed a stubborn puzzle: at low energies, they appear as ...

Trillions of times smaller than a grain of sand and smaller than an atomic proton or neutron, quarks are among the smallest particles in the universe. They are essentially building blocks for ...

The ISOLDE set-up used to study the exotic nucleus of aluminium. Credit: CERN Interestingly, the probability sum involving the up quark is presently in apparent tension with the expected unity, ...

University of Melbourne physicists have helped discover a new state of matter that may shed light on the fabric of the universe. The University team of 14 is part of a group of 300 physicists from 13 ...