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Understanding the universe's building blocks, the Standard Model categorizes particles and explains forces, yet leaves ...

By Mackenzie Devereux The Standard Model, depicting the fundamental building blocks of the universe, including top quarks. Courtesy of Cush via Wikimedia Commons Sitong An, a physicist at Carnegie ...

String theory attempts to unify all forces and particles in the universe using vibrating strings. It aims to explain the Standard Model of particle physics, which is incomplete. String theory predicts ...

Superheavy charged gravitinos may be the long-sought answer to dark matter. Dark Matter remains one of the biggest mysteries ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. The most exciting possible avenue for physics beyond the standard model ...

In nuclear beta decay an up quark ‘u’ in a proton converts into an up down quark ‘d,’ turning the proton into a neutron and emitting a positron and a neutrino. This work affects interpretation of beta ...

Pioneering work Illustration of how a proton collision (left) at the Large Hadron Collider creates a beauty baryon (centre) that then decays into products that are detected by LHCb (right). (Courtesy: ...

Dark energy—the term used to describe whatever is causing the universe to expand at an increasing rate—is one of the universe ...

At a beachfront convention center in Cancún, Mexico, last December, Seshadri Nadathur presented a confidential growth chart of the universe. Seated in the audience, hundreds of his fellow scientists ...