The question of where atoms come from requires a lot of physics to be answered completely – and even then, physicists only have good guesses to explain how some atoms are formed.

An atom consists of a heavy center, called the nucleus, made of particles called protons and neutrons. An atom has lighter ...

The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

Why did they form at that time? Astronomers know from observing distant exploding stars that the size of the universe has ...

While the Standard Model (SM) describes all known fundamental particles and many of the interactions between them, it fails to explain dark matter, dark energy and the apparent asymmetry between ...

Explore ETH Zurich’s cutting-edge experiments on fundamental forces and dark matter. Click to read the full story now ...

Protons and neutrons also have another property - kind of like a different type of charge - that is strong enough to bind ...

Scientists are using trapped ions in experiments to search for signs of a new particle that could help explain the mysterious ...

While gluons are responsible for generating most of the visible mass in the universe, their role inside nuclei remains poorly ...

The KATRIN collaboration has published an upper limit on the sum of the masses of the three known neutrino types using 259 days of measurements recorded across five data-taking runs between March 2019 ...

Scientists are using trapped ions in cutting-edge experiments to hunt for signs of an undiscovered particle that might help ...