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Isotonic (constant neutron number) systematics in the deformed rare-earth region have long suggested that nuclei with odd numbers of protons are more compact than their even-proton neighbors—except ...

MIT researchers working on an international neutrino experiment have expanded its detector setup from ...

With little in the way of significant discoveries since 2012, there have been mutterings that particle physics is at a dead end. However, new dark matter results suggest an exciting new way to hunt fo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four ...

The discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012 represented a major turning point for particle physics marking the completion of what is known as the standard model of particle physics. Yet, the standard ...

Simulating the fundamental forces of nature on a computer is one of the grand challenges of modern physics, and a team at the ...

In making our predictions we sometimes rely on an infographic that we have been updating for a decade or so. It shows the ...

Particle physics has revolutionized the way we look at the universe. Along the way, it’s made significant impacts on other fields of science, improved daily life for people around the world and ...

When it was time for the 2013 Nobel prize in physics to be announced, Peter Higgs went fishing. Andy Rain/EPA Images Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson, ...

No one has ever probed a particle more stringently than this. In a new experiment, scientists measured a magnetic property of the electron more carefully than ever before, making the most precise ...