in 1932 Cockcroft and Walton used a 400 kV generator to accelerate protons and shoot them onto a lithium target which resulted in the first entirely man-controlled splitting of the atom. Particle ...

"The claim that dust is halfway between an atom and Earth would be valid on a logarithmic scale for dust particles that are a ...

Since its inception in 2008, the LHC (large hadron collider) at CERN has been a key player in pushing the boundaries of particle physics research. Consisting of four main experiments, the circular ...

Why matter dominates over antimatter in our universe has long been a major cosmic mystery to physicists. A new finding by the world's largest particle collider has revealed a clue.

Now, to make the diagrams simpler we often just draw them as circles. So now an atom is the smallest particle of an element. There are over one hundred different elements and these are all made of ...

If you know the proton number and nucleon number you can calculate the number of each sub-atomic particle in an atom. The full chemical symbol for an element shows its nucleon number (A ...

Physicists at the world's largest particle accelerator have made a first-of-its-kind discovery about antimatter that could help solve one of the universe's biggest mysteries. The discovery ...