Physics World

Nature’s building blocks brought to life

These colourful shapes are part of a project launched last week to create a periodic table of shapes to do for geometry what Dmitri Mendeleev did for chemistry in the 19th century. The three-year ...
Quanta Magazine

How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?

How many kinds of elementary particles should I say there are? In experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, physicists smash ...

Physicists Create a New Kind of Schrödinger’s Cat State From Exotic Quantum Building Blocks

Oxford physicists have created an unconventional class of quantum superpositions from highly nonclassical states.
Columbia Missourian

MU physics researchers gain new insight into universe's 'building blocks'

MU researchers are studying particles that are considered the building blocks of the universe, which will help scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in future research. The researchers ...
Phys.org

Unusual atom helps in search for universe's building blocks

An unusual form of cesium atom is helping a University of Queensland-led research team unmask unknown particles that make up the universe. Dr. Jacinda Ginges, from UQ's School of Mathematics and ...
The Conversation

Peter Higgs was one of the greats of particle physics. He transformed what we know about the building blocks of the universe

When it was time for the 2013 Nobel prize in physics to be announced, Peter Higgs went fishing. Andy Rain/EPA Images Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson, ...