Deep inside every atom lies a restless world of quarks and gluons—the tiny building ...

Our account of the strong nuclear force is full of imaginative terms. Six flavors of quarks have color charges of red, green and blue, which dictate how they bind to form particles like protons and ...

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AMES, Iowa – John Lajoie, surrounded in his office by Star Trek posters and a few space hero action figures, recently made the case for nuclear physics research and the multi-million-dollar ...

Evidence of a particle made up of four tightly bound quarks tests physicists’ understanding of the force that holds protons and neutrons together. The particles in a hadron are bound tightly together ...

A heavy relative of the proton has been found at the world's largest particle accelerator. Physicists captured the elusive subatomic particle—sought for decades—in a fleeting moment during ...

Bee secrets -- Aiming for the stars -- Shut out -- Panic at MIT -- Spreading the dream -- The big picture -- High energy days -- The Bell years -- A presidential appointment -- Blazing a trail ...