A pair of top quarks has been detected in the detritus spraying forth from the collision of two atoms of lead. It's the first time that this specific quark-antiquark pair has been spotted in a ...

Astrophysicists are closing in on one of the strangest possibilities in stellar evolution, a compact remnant that might sit between neutron stars and black holes. These hypothetical “quark stars” ...

Objects are made of atoms, and atoms are likewise the sum of their parts—electrons, protons, and neutrons. Dive into one of those protons or neutrons, however, and things get weird. Three particles ...

A pair of top quarks has been detected in the detritus spraying forth from the collision of two atoms of lead. This means that we're a step closer to taking new measurements of this primordial soup, ...