A tiny wobbling particle may be about to reveal a fifth force of nature, scientists behind one of the biggest particle physics experiments say. Physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, ...

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

Particle physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider have detected two new subatomic particles that were predicted to exist but never seen. The discovery of the two new baryon particles stands to ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A powerful new particle accelerator that could be set up at Fermilab, a telescope to observe the oldest light in the universe, and research to learn more about mysteries such as dark ...

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Decades after it became clear that the visible Universe is built on a framework of dark matter, we still don’t know what dark matter actually is. On large scales, a variety of evidence points toward ...

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For over 70 years astrophysicists have speculated what might compose the missing dark matter that seems to make up over 80% of all mass in the universe. The typical candidates are fundamental entities ...

New research suggests reported decays of a Kaon by the Koto experiment may actually be new particles. Florida State University physicists believe they have an answer to unusual incidents of rare decay ...

In tension The cosmic microwave background as seen by the Planck space telescope. It yields a value of the Hubble constant that is different from values measured in the nearby universe. (Courtesy: ...

A new study suggests that many theorized heavy particles, if they exist at all, do not have the properties needed to explain the predominance of matter over antimatter in the universe. If confirmed, ...