The standard model of particle physics represents the most comprehensive theory about fundamental or subatomic particles and forces in the universe. The model describes how matter and antimatter ...

Beneath the Swiss Alps lives the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator and recently scientists found three new subatomic particles never seen before. NBC News’ Jacob Ward is joined by ...

Data from billions of proton collisions reveal that subatomic particles called W + and W − bosons keep company with a photon. You have full access to this article via your institution.

Using a groundbreaking new technique at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an international collaboration led by NIST researchers has revealed previously unrecognized ...

Jonathan Feldschuh, "Large Hadron Collider #6" (2007), acrylic and mylar on Plexiglas, 36 x 72 inches (all images courtesy the artist) Something like magnetic attraction joins certain descriptions to ...

It’s around you, it’s a part of you, and scientists are still trying to figure it out. Antimatter: It’s the opposite of the matter we’re used to; it’s mysteriously elusive; and when it gets too close ...

The Standard Model describes three fundamental forces in nature: electromagnetic, strong and weak. Each force operates through the action of "carrier particles." For example, the photon is the force ...