Members of the STAR collaboration, a group of physicists collecting and analyzing data from particle collisions at the ...

“This research helps reveal how nuclear matter behaves under extreme conditions, like those that existed just after the Big ...

There are scientific explanations for this, including theories about layers of particles in the nucleus, and “magic numbers” of protons and neutrons that may be stable in combination. If we can find ...

Andrea Richard receives funding from the Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration.

Intriguingly, these scientists noticed that very particular numbers of protons and neutrons appeared to result in unusually stable nuclei, and these values became known as magic numbers. "The magic ...

Baryons are the class of subatomic particles that includes protons and neutrons, the basic building blocks of atoms ... Across all planets and stars, scientists can find only around 70% of the baryons ...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic ...

Think of it this way: if you roll a ball toward a wall, it will bounce back. That’s normal physics. But in the quantum world, a tiny particle might sometimes pass straight through the wall, as if the ...

Scientists may have finally uncovered the mystery behind ultra-high-energy cosmic rays — the most powerful particles known in ...

Could black holes help explain the origins of high-energy cosmic radiation? The universe is filled with many forms of ...

“Curious people,” according to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez, “had the right to exhibit a controlled disrespect ...