They're tiny, invisible, and travel across the universe. And trillions of them just flew through your body. What are they? Neutrinos ‒ and scientists Wednesday announced the discovery of the most ...

Researchers used supercomputers and statistics to predict properties of the heavy nucleus lead-208, consisting of 126 neutrons (red spheres) and 82 protons (blue spheres). The excess neutrons form a ...

Cosmic Lottery: Despite being electrically neutral and possessing the smallest rest mass among elementary particles (excluding massless photons), neutrinos are among the most abundant particles in the ...

Physicist Richard Feynman invented them to describe the interactions between real particles. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This ...

Dipangkar Dutta receives funding from US Dept. of Energy and NSF. A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What ...