19 July 2023
A new type of particle called the strange pentaquark has been found using the Large Hadron Collider. The particle could help researchers catalogue the states of exotic matter and figure out how fundamental particles stick together
29 March 2023
An experiment that probed particles called gluons, which contain most of the mass of a proton, has revealed that a proton’s radius alters depending on whether you look at the particle's charge or mass
25 March 2023
A 2022 measurement of the mass of the W boson threatened to upend particle physics as we know it, but new results from CERN indicate the standard model was right all along
6 March 2023
A water-based detector has been used to spot antineutrinos from nuclear reactions hundreds of kilometres away. It could be used to monitor distant nuclear activities
4 January 2023
A chip-sized device can produce very intense light that could help in building tiny X-ray machines and particle accelerators
12 December 2022
Experiments at CERN's particle collider suggest that antihelium particles created by dark matter in distant space could make it to Earth
31 October 2022
Two neutron stars smashing together may produce a form of matter not seen before. If that happens, simulations suggest there would be a signal in gravitational waves resulting from the collision
20 October 2022
Large Hadron Collider has helped determine the distribution of masses that the Higgs boson can have, a measure known as its width
19 October 2022
The particles inside a proton move around when exposed to electric and magnetic fields, causing it to deform, but this behaviour isn't well understood
13 October 2022
By trapping a single electron in an isolated chamber cooled to near absolute zero, physicists were able to measure the particle's magnetic moment - a key quantum property - at a precision of 1.3 parts in 10 trillion
