For decades, physicists have chased the dream of unifying all of nature’s forces under a single theory. String theory has long been a top candidate, offering a single mathematical framework that could ...

Analysis of particle emission ratios in heavy-ion collisions reveals that anomalous yield patterns can indicate the formation of quark-gluon plasma (QGP). This approach distinguishes QGP from hadronic ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In 2016, three researchers from Brown, Princeton, and the University of Washington received the Nobel Prize of Physics for their theoretical ...

Information could become the fifth state of matter alongside gas, plasma, liquid, and solid states. A scientist has proposed an experiment involving particle annihilation that could establish that ...

In a first, CERN physicists succeeded in observing matter-antimatter imbalance in baryons, fundamental particles that make up most of the observable universe. Reading time 3 minutes All matter in our ...

How do scientists use the states of matter to create new inventions? Scientists care about the state of matter so they can explain why things happen or how to develop new uses. Meet a material ...