Physicists know that their elegant theoretical description of forces and particles — the standard model of particle physics — must be incomplete, because there are a host of phenomena it cannot ...

These hybrid particles combine light’s speed with matter’s ability to interact, enabling optical signal switching. Credit: Zhi Wang Eighty years after the creation of ENIAC, the world's first ...

Minecraft finally releases its Chaos Cubed update, introducing new blocks, biomes, and mobs for fans to discover, plus a few bug fixes. LEGO reveals an eye-catching set based on the recently announced ...

Particle physics is the study of the elementary building blocks of matter and radiation and their interaction. The fundamental particles are summarised by the standard model. This includes leptons ...

Watch this video to find out how to use the periodic table to identify the atomic and mass numbers of an element. For example, the atomic number of sodium is 11. Every sodium atom has 11 protons and ...

1 mol is the amount of substance that contains the same number of particles as there are atoms in 12.0 g of carbon-12.