The world’s largest atom smasher has conducted its first-ever collisions between protons and oxygen ions, as part of an ...

As the number of particles in a physical system increases, its properties can change and different phase transitions (i.e., shifts into different phases of matter) can take place. Microscopic systems ...

The race to build the first useful quantum computer is on and may revolutionize the world with brand new capabilities, from ...

An atom consists of a heavy center, called the nucleus, made of particles called protons and neutrons. An atom has lighter ...

Electrons are proficient little magicians. They seem to flit about an atom without tracing a particular path, they frequently appear to be in two places at once, and their behavior in silicon ...

A detailed history of alpha particles and Rutherford's work on the atom can be found on the American Institutes of Physics website. Explore atoms in even more detail with The Institute of Physics.

The Future Circular Collider (FCC) will be buried at the Swiss-French border and will be triple the size of the 16.6-mile Large Hadron Collider at the same site.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.. On a quiet pandemic afternoon in 2021, Zhiyuan Wang, then a graduate student at Rice University, was alleviating his boredom by ...

This new particle is so small it makes an atom look enormous. By Elizabeth Rayne Published: Apr 14, 2025 12:00 AM EDT. ... Toponium particles, at least in theory, ...

Rutherford made a series of discoveries about the nature of atoms and, working with colleagues Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, presented a planetary model of the atom in 1911. In it, he laid out ...