Inside the most powerful particle colliders on Earth, protons slam together at nearly the speed of light, shredding matter ...

Proton collisions at the LHC appear wildly chaotic, but new data reveal a surprising underlying order. The findings confirm that a basic rule of quantum mechanics holds true even in extreme particle ...

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Inside high-energy proton collisions, quarks and gluons briefly form a dense, boiling state before cooling into ordinary ...

For decades, physicists have relied on the principle of symmetry to simplify and understand the complex behaviors of subatomic particles. Symmetry in physics basically means that some rules of nature ...

Quarks are found in protons and are bound together by forces which cause all other known forces of nature to fade. To understand the effects of these strong forces between the quarks is one of the ...

At a fundamental level, reality is determined by only two properties of our Universe: the quanta that make up everything that exists and the interactions that take place between them. While the rules ...

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View Slideshow It's long been thought that a supernova, the most explosive event in the universe short of the big bang itself, typically leaves behind one of two remnants: a neutron star or a black ...

Physicists have known for decades that particles called gluons keep protons and neutrons intact—and thereby hold the universe together. Yet the details of how gluons function remain surprisingly ...

Twenty-five years ago, Quirks & Quarks celebrated its anniversary by travelling forward in time — to 2025 — to find out how ...