Why did this particle mysteriously disintegrate?

The standard model of physics is one of the most successful scientific theories in existence, but do we need it all?

Our understanding of the internal structure of protons is largely based on classical physics, but data compiled from ...

A new wave equation suggests accelerating waves can move only toward positive time, offering a possible microscopic ...

Researchers have nailed down an elusive quantity called baryon number, which may be responsible for the cosmic mismatch between matter and antimatter ...

Physicists with the Beijing Spectrometer III (BES III) experiment have uncovered convincing new evidence of the existence of so-called glueballs, an elusive composite particle made entirely of gluons ...

From schools of fish and flocks of birds to microscopic synthetic particles, many systems in nature and the laboratory ...

Two theoretical physicists – including a Nobel laureate – have solved a mathematical problem that flummoxed them for 10 years ...

Basic biology courses teach that cells contain organelles—such as the nucleus, mitochondria and Golgi apparatus—set apart by ...