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There's a Giant Mystery Hiding Inside Every Atom in the Universe
By Rafi Letzter last updated
No one really knows what happens inside an atom.
Physicists Just Solved a 35-Year-Old Mystery Hidden Inside Atomic Cores
By Rafi Letzter last updated
The quarks inside atoms move slower than the quarks inside free-floating protons and neutrons. But why?
Rare quadruplet 'top quarks' created at world's largest atom smasher
By Diane Lincoln last updated
The world's largest atom smasher has "given birth" to a set of four ultraheavy particles — called top quarks.
Large Hadron Collider finds new way to measure mass of a quark
By Keith Cooper last updated
The LHC's ALICE experiment detected a 'dead cone' in the aftermath of a proton-proton collision, paving the way for the direct measurement of the mass of a quark.
Weird quantum experiment shows protons have more 'charm' than we thought
By Stephanie Pappas last updated
Protons can contain a charm quark, an elementary particle 1.5 times heavier than the proton itself.
Why Physicists Are Interested in the Mysterious Quirks of the Heftiest Quark
By Paul Sutter last updated
The top quark is about 100 trillion times heavier than the up quark. But why?
Strange quark star may have formed from a lucky cosmic merger
By Paul Sutter last updated
A team of physicists has found that the remnant of a neutron star merger observed in 2019 has just the right mass to be a strange hypothetical quark star.
Quarks: What are they?
By Keith Cooper published
Reference Quarks are elementary particles that are the building blocks of all visible matter in the universe. Explore them in more detail here.
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