As if atoms weren’t already mind-blowingly small, never mind subatomic particles, CERN researchers in the CMS Collaboration ...

Finally, the study of particles and matter provides many exciting and future-oriented career prospects. The Federal Ministry of Research creates the conditions for first-class basic scientific ...

Since the world of matter is made up of invisible particles ... begins with the description of the 16 known basic particles, including such oddities as antineutrinos. But the course is mostly ...

At a basic level, quantum physics predicts very strange things about how matter works that are completely at odds with how things seem to work in the real world. Quantum particles can behave like ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

an invisible form of matter inferred from observations of the cosmos. But efforts to spot the particles have been unsuccessful. The newfound axion imitators are the next best thing. We summarize ...