Experts believe the universe may have a built-in 'self-destruct button' called false vacuum decay which could destroy the ...

Meet Liam Mak — the trans advocate who co-founded Quarks, Hong Kong's first support network for transgender youth. Two steps ...

Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), together with collaborators ...

Ask Dr. Universe: Protons are made of quarks Mon., April 14, 2025 Protons (and neutrons) are made of a different kind of fundamental particle. They’re quarks.

There are six types of quarks. Up and down quarks are found in protons and neutrons. The other four (charm, strange, top, and bottom) are only seen after very energetic events, as they are not stable.

There are six types (called "flavors"): up, down, charm, strange, top, and bottom. Quarks interact strongly with each other via gluons, particles that transmit the strong nuclear force, one of the ...

Physicists love a particle accelerator, and we have since taken a good look at the six flavors of quarks (up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top) and the eight different types of gluons.

Top quarks and antiquarks produced in the Large Hadron Collider are entangled, ... (SN: 6/15/17). Entanglement is commonly studied in relatively small laboratory experiments using particles of ...

By smashing protons together at blinding speeds, scientists have shown that pairs of quarks display the phenomenon of quantum entanglement.

James Bjorken, a theoretical physicist who played a key role in establishing the existence of the subatomic particles called quarks, died on Aug. 6 in Redwood City, Calif. He was 90.

Each contains six quarks. (Courtesy: Bo Wang/Hebei University) Multiple hexaquarks – strongly interacting hadronic particles comprising six quarks – are likely to exist, according to a new theoretical ...