Although its existence had been theorized for decades, the Higgs boson was finally observed to exist in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Since then, it has continued to be heavily ...
At the world’s most powerful colliders, physicists are finally catching sight of particles that almost never leave a trace, a ...
Illustration of a tetraquark composed of two charm quarks and two charm antiquarks. (Image: CERN) To date, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has discovered 80 particles. The most famous is the ...
LISTEN | Seth Jacobson describes the chemical cues of this cosmic collision: Quirks and Quarks7:26The cosmic collider that smashed into Earth and gave us our Moon was an old neighbour Scientists have ...
Early exotica Were cannibal stars and boson stars created just after the Big Bang? (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Tomertu) In the early universe, moments after the Big Bang and cosmic inflation, clusters of ...