Scientists have discovered a new way of creating superheavy elements by firing supercharged ion beams at dense atoms. The ...

Quantum entanglement is a fascinating, counterintuitive phenomenon where two subatomic particles remain deeply connected, even if separated by billions of light-years. A change in one particle ...

These are almost one-quarter of the periodic table and are mainly found in the first four periods. Of these, 11 are essential elements that our bodies need in larger amounts: oxygen, carbon ...

A team at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) in Tokai shot a laser at a stream of muons to bring the fast-moving particles to a near-standstill. Then, the researchers applied ...

This means that eventually all the stars will wink out and decay, and all the subatomic particles will drift away from each other in the cold. Unfortunately, even in their most exotic theories ...

A hand in a glove holds an ampoule and a syringe. The injectable vitamins were found to contain glass particles. A hand in a glove holds an ampoule and a syringe. The injectable vitamins were ...

Its latest showpiece is the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (Juno), a state-of-the-art facility for studying the minuscule subatomic particles. The project is an "exciting" opportunity ...

Companies around the world are racing to make a revolutionary new generation of computers Quantum computers make use of the weird qualities of sub-atomic particles. So-called quantum particles can ...

These helped illuminate the path to discovering several missing quarks, the last sub-atomic particles, and explored the question of “CP violation”—why there is more matter than antimatter in the ...

Nuclear fission, the splitting of an atom’s nucleus into smaller particles, was discovered in 1938 by bombarding elements with neutrons. This process releases large amounts of heat and radiation, ...

[Photo/Xinhua] GUANGZHOU -- China has constructed the world's largest transparent spherical detector 700 meters underground to capture elusive neutrinos, often dubbed "ghost particles," to unravel ...