How the world of the smallest particles is structured, what is known about fundamental forces, and what particles have to do ...

QUARKS These particles make up protons, neutrons and a veritable zoo of lesser-known particles. They have never been observed in isolation. Electric charge: +2/3 Mass: 2 MeV Constituent of ordinary ...

The quantum world is notoriously difficult to comprehend. As Niels Bohr famously stated, “Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.” One of the things we pride ourselves on ...

Charge Pomeranchuk orders, skyrmion lattices and magnetic monopoles in spin ice materials may sound like a sci-fi shopping list, but according to Malte Grosche, head of the Quantum Matter Group at the ...

GENEVA -- Was it a blip, or a breakthrough? Scientists around the globe are revved up with excitement as the world's biggest atom smasher -- best known for revealing the Higgs boson four years ago -- ...

The University of Chicago announced today that it has received a $5 million gift to be directed toward the development of future programs in particle physics. "This is a marvelous gift," said Robert ...