Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

For the first time ever, physicists at the world’s largest atom smasher have observed differences in the decay of particles and antiparticles containing a basic building block of matter, called the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Researchers have observed the “dead cone effect” for the first time ever. This work, published last ...

The Higgs boson, discovered at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012, plays a central role in the Standard Model of particle physics, endowing elementary particles such as quarks with mass through ...

Scientists on the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN have discovered a new way in which matter and antimatter behave differently. With 99.9999 percent statistical certainty, LHCb ...

Protons are particles that exist in the nucleus of all atoms, with their number defining the elements themselves. Protons, however, are not fundamental particles. Rather, they are composite particles ...

Particle physicists at CERN have measured charge-parity (CP) violation in the D 0 meson for the first time. Announcing the finding today during the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference held in La ...