When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Eight years ago, scientists with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) collaboration detected ...

Consider it good news, physicists say: “The opposite result would have had big implications.” By Dennis Overbye Antimatter just lost a little more pizazz. Physicists know that for every fundamental ...

Every fundamental particle in the universe has an antiparticle, which has the same mass but the opposite charge. If a particle should ever meet its antiparticle, the two would annihilate each other in ...

So far, the LHC has been spending its time ramming protons together, leaving Brookhaven’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) the king of the hill when it comes to smashing larger atomic nuclei.

Inside materials, the interactions between groups of electrons and atoms in the crystal lattice can give rise to a variety of interesting phenomena. Their collective behavior, especially at low ...

Scientists have been trying already for years to resolve the issue whether dark matter really exists, and if so what are properties of its constituent particles. Physicists expected that results of ...

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Touch something. Anything. What do you feel? Does it push back? That’s electromagnetism. Any time you touch something solid, the sensation of not being able to put your hand right through it is caused ...

13.8 billion years ago, at the moment of the Big Bang, the Universe was the hottest it's ever been in history. Every single known particle exists in great abundance, along with equal amounts of their ...

Antimatter is the same as ordinary matter except that it has the opposite electric charge. For instance, an electron, which has a negative charge, has an antimatter partner known as a positron. A ...