Physicists just discovered a brand-new particle that appears to be an exotic cousin to the protons and neutrons that make up ...

The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons: quarks The four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and ...

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Physicists have found the strongest sign yet of a fabled four of a kind. For six decades, researchers have hunted for clusters of four neutrons called tetraneutrons. But evidence for their existence ...

At the heart of every atomic nucleus, the strong interaction quietly dictates the structure of matter, yet for decades one of its simplest products refused to fit the script. The way fragile “light ...

Lee G. Sobotka is in the Department of Physics and the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, Missouri 63130, USA, and in the Department of Chemistry, ...