When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, host of Ask a Spaceman and ...

Almost everything is made of particles. Particles can be atoms, molecules or ions. Particles behave differently in solids, liquids and gases. The particle model explains the differences between solids ...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or two to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the universe.

The fundamental particle of light is both ordinary and full of surprises. What physicists refer to as photons, other people might just call light. As quanta of light, photons are the smallest possible ...

Bosons are particles that carry energy and forces throughout the universe. The standard model of particle physics — the most robust theory we have of the sub-atomic world — divides every particle in ...

“What could Leonardo Da Vinci’s Gioconda, the memory of a cellphone, and SARS-CoV-2 have in common? The answer is in a powerful light beam or the so-called synchrotron light, a particle accelerator ...

The particles in a gas are moving very quickly in random directions. The speeds of the particles vary but, on average, they move quicker than they do in liquids and solids. This means that it does not ...

The Large Hadron Collider is known for discovering the Higgs boson, but the technologies used in accelerating and detecting new particles also have uses outside of high-energy physics. Carsten Welsch ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest particle collider: a marvel of modern particle physics that has enabled researchers to plumb the depths of reality. In 2012, the massive atom ...