Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.

Experts believe the universe may have a built-in 'self-destruct button' called false vacuum decay which could destroy the ...

Under the right conditions, this collapse doesn’t end in a singularity — instead, it bounces and begins expanding again,” said University of Portsmouth professor Enrique Gaztañaga in a statement that ...

On June 11, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine announced the result of a three-year study to set a ...

Scientists in Canada are scrambling. Over the past few months, the U.S. government has cut billions of dollars in funding from scientific research as part of sweeping cost-cutting measures. "It's ...

ABSTRACT: The time evolution of the Higgs, the Faddeev-Popov ghost fields, and the gauge phase functions of the standard model are analyzed using the ghost Lagrangian density from Chapter 11 of Taylor ...

We study boson star configurations with generic, but not nontopological, self-interaction terms. When compared with the usual λ|ψ| 4 potential, similar results for masses and number of particles ...

Every spring, Quirks & Quarks features our ever-popular listener question show, where we find experts to answer your questions. But here are ten mysteries that science has yet to answer.

“Sally had some quarks, that’s for sure,” she said, laughing. “I wanted her to be open with people she cared about. I could care less if the rest of the world knew.

This is the LHC’s first dedicated Z boson mass measurement, and it matches the precision achieved by earlier colliders like the LEP. Updated: Jun 08, 2025 09:42 AM EST ...

The Higgs boson, discovered in 2012 thanks to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is at the heart of the Standard Model of particle physics because it explains why particles have mass. So far, scientists ...

Dive deep into the astonishing scale of the microscopic and quantum worlds, revealing how sizes range from visible cells and viruses down to elusive subatomic particles. Visuals showcase everyday ...