The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

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New results from the MicroBooNE experiment rule out the existence of a sterile neutrino, reshaping how scientists think about ...

Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

Physicists are exploring whether hidden dimensions and the shape of space could help explain why fundamental particles have ...

The theorized unseen structure of spacetime could also explain of the outstanding questions about the accelerating expansion ...

Experimental particle physicists working at the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory have found ...

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Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

The Large Hadron Collider will be shut down, paving the way for a major upgrade, and perhaps its eventual, even bigger ...