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

Physicists are a step closer to using quantum computers for simulations that are beyond the ability of any ordinary computers ...

Toponium particles, at least in theory, do not annihilate each other almost but instantly decay into a bottom quark and a W boson—one of two bosons responsible for the weak nuclear force.

Credited with splitting the nucleus of an atom during experiments at the ... reaction by bombarding nitrogen nuclei with alpha particles," Smith said. He added that he would invite the incoming ...

Since the atomic nucleus was first proposed in 1911, physicists simply assumed it was round. ​ But are the nuclei of atoms ...

New data from particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), an "atom smasher" at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, reveals how the primordial ...

Later, he and his team conducted experiments in Manchester between 1914 and 1919, which have been described as being the first to "split the atom". He blasted beams of radioactive particles into ...