Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though ...

Electrons are usually described as particles, but in a rare quantum material, that picture completely breaks down ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

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 ...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unthinkable state of matter that challenges decades of assumptions ...

Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider have been exploring the limits of physics by smashing particles together, but a team from Yale and Harvard has taken a different approach. The so-called ACME ...

A material cooled near absolute zero produced an electrical signal that physics said should not exist, revealing a new kind ...

The physics department at UC Santa Barbara houses its own powerful particle accelerator that accelerates electrons to 99.4% of the speed of light: The Sherwin Group’s ability to produce short and ...

The USA has only two accelerators that can produce 10 billion electron-volt particle beams, and they're each about 1.9 miles (3 km) long. "We can now reach those energies in 10 cm (4 inches)," said ...

How many electrons are there in the Universe? One bold theory suggests that there could only be one, although this theory has ...