Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

In late 2023, Wojciech Brylinski was analyzing data from the NA61/SHINE collaboration at CERN for his thesis when he noticed an unexpected anomaly—a strikingly large imbalance between charged and ...

A collaboration of nuclear theorists has used supercomputers to predict the spatial distributions of charges, momentum, and other properties of 'up' and 'down' quarks within protons. The calculations ...

Fedor Popov is a Junior Fellow with the Simons Society of Fellows. In his series Foundation, science fiction author Isaac Asimov put forth a provocative idea that, while we can never predict the ...

For the first time, quarks and gluons were used to describe properties of atomic nuclei, which until now had been explained by the existence of protons and neutrons. The temporary pair of correlated ...

Two independent studies have illuminated unexpected substructures in the fundamental components of all matter. Preliminary results using a novel tagging method could explain the origin of the ...

Leaving the Y behind: When a proton collides with another particle (left), its three valence quarks (labelled u, u, d) will continue to fly down the beampipe, but its Y-shaped configuration of gluons ...

Bottom quarks are increasingly more likely to exist in three-quark states rather than two-quark ones as the density of their environment increases. A quark—a fundamental constituent of matter—cannot ...

Physicists have struggled for seven decades with the question of why there is more matter in the universe than antimatter.