The small but ubiquitous proton serves as a foundation for the bulk of the visible matter in the universe. It abides at the ...

Knowable Magazine reports that neutrinos may help explain the universe's missing antimatter, shedding light on ...

From the powdered wings of a butterfly to the icy spines of a snowflake, symmetry is a common feature in nature. This often even holds true down to the smallest bits of matter, which helps nuclear ...

Scientists have proposed a new kind of subatomic particle to explain another particle’s mysterious disintegration. What just ...

For the first time in more than thirty years, the heaviest nucleus decaying via proton emission has been measured. The previous similar breakthrough was achieved in 1996. The radioactive decay of ...

A view inside a proton moving at nearly the speed of light toward the viewer with its spin pointing horizontally shows differences in the spatial distributions of the momentum of up (left) and down ...

An experiment using beams of protons to probe how plasma and magnetic fields interact may have just solved the mystery of how quasars and other active supermassive black holes unleash their ...