A strange surplus of baryons emerging from smashed nuclei has given physicists their strongest test yet of a decades-old ...

Physicists may have uncovered a hidden feature inside protons that helps preserve one of matter’s most fundamental properties ...

The Universe is like water flowing downhill, and that's not a New-Age-style spiritual mantra. Particles and systems spontaneously move to lower energy states, including heavy particles decaying into ...

After 50 years of searching, there is the strongest evidence yet for a glueball – a particle made of pure binding energy of the strong nuclear force.

Never doubt the level of curiosity among University of Kansas researchers. Sometimes they are interested in finding out what happened in a time period as small as a few millionths of a second. If they ...

The video explores some of the strangest possible stellar objects, from future blue dwarfs and dead black dwarfs to iron ...

A neutron star is so dense that one sugar cube of its material would weigh around 1 trillion kilograms.

For decades, a theory in physics has postulated the existence of a mirror world whose interaction with our own reality is extremely feeble. The particles in this mirror universe are also thought to be ...