Click to tell Google to prioritize Quanta and see more of the best coverage of science and math in your search and AI results. Every time I write about particle physics, I encounter a moment of ...

Dr Schwingenheuer explores how the search for neutrinoless double beta decay could reveal whether neutrinos are their own ...

Because some elementary particles penetrate matter without destroying it, they're a boon for scientific and medical applications. But have all the elementary particles been discovered? Researchers are ...

How did the universe come into being? There are a multitude of theories on this subject. In a Physical Review Letters paper, three scientists formulate a new model: according to this, inflation, the ...

I could begin by telling you that neutrinos are elementary particles, but that sounds condescending. They’re not called elementary because they’re easy to understand – they aren’t – but because they ...

The observation of an elusive sub-atomic particle, known as the Higgs boson, has been heralded by the journal Science as the most important scientific discovery of 2012. This particle, which was first ...

From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of “chiral” objects that differ from their reflected forms. Click to tell Google to prioritize Quanta and see more of the ...

CERN has announced new results on the rare decay of subatomic particles. The process involves the transformation of a type of quark called a beauty quark into another type known as a strange quark, ...