For example, baryons, such as protons and neutrons, are combinations of three quarks bound tightly together by strong force-carrying gluons. When individual quarks are ripped from hadrons ...

Electrons gently tug on protons in the lattice, drawing them inward to create an excess of positive charge. That deformation, known as a phonon, can then draw in a second electron, forming a ...

FERMI and his collaborators 1 have reported that neutrons slowed down by collisions in substances containing hydrogen are captured by many nuclei very much more frequently than are fast neutrons.

Fusion energy has long been hailed as the “holy grail” of clean energy. However, the problem of runaway electrons has been a major hurdle in realizing the nuclear fusion process. The latest ...

Discovering that electrons can manifest as ‘split-electrons’ in nanoscale circuits, scientists are now on the brink of a technological revolution that could lead to the practical use of Majorana ...

That matters greatly to science: neutrons, the electrically neutral particles that sit alongside positively charged protons in the ... advantages over X-rays and electrons, such as being non ...

We have a much more complicated, dynamic system." Scientists have used high-energy particle collisions to peer inside protons, the particles that sit inside the nuclei of all atoms. This has ...

Amanda Vanstone complains that the more independents we elect, the more likely it is that they will decide who governs the country.

A new breakthrough may help scientists solve some of the mysteries of the quantum realm. For the first time, physicists have been able to measure the geometrical 'shape' a lone electron adopts as it ...