The atom is a complex system of particles. It's made up of a central nucleus consisting of protons and neutrons, called nucleons, with electrons orbiting around the nucleus. Nobel prize-winning ...

The size of an atom is only a few angstroms at most - there are 10 billion angstroms in 1 metre. This video also looks at the ...

They keep on passing through your tissues and eventually exit the body. That’s why they can often damage healthy cells along with the cancer cells. Protons are positively charged particles found in ...

Each particle has its own charge and its own mass.

"With evidence that quarks and gluons are entangled, this picture has changed. We have a much more complicated, dynamic system." ...

By these rules, for example, protons have antiparticles called antiprotons, and electrons get antielectrons—more commonly known as positrons. (Neutrons have no charge, so antineutrons also have ...

While particle physicists have made significant progress in understanding the inner structures of protons, neutrons, and other hadrons, there is still much to learn. Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) says ...

Using the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa, an international team of astronomers has detected 26 new Galactic radio transients. Most of them turned out to be rotating radio transients (RRATs ...

Scientists suggest paraparticles, a quasiparticle class, potentially redefining physics by challenging the fermion and boson ...

Researchers discovered rutherfordium-252, the shortest-lived superheavy nucleus, refining the "island of stability" map and ...

Researchers from Kyushu University, Japan have revealed how a special type of force within an atom's nucleus, known as the ...

Scientists are keen to get to the bottom of the dark matter puzzle because this phenomenon accounts for the vast majority of the "stuff" in the universe — about 85%, in fact. That means everything we ...