A Rice physics professor has proven the existence of particles that were long thought impossible. Kaden Hazzard and his ...

For example, all fundamental particles (that we know of) can be naturally divided into two categories: fermions and bosons. Fermions contain all the particles of matter (i.e. quarks and leptons) and ...

All of the "independent" confirmations have ... You've got your elements, like helium and aluminum. They are made of fundamental particles, like the proton, neutron and electron.

A group of fundamental particles, long theorised but thought to be physically impossible, might exist after all. Known as paraparticles, they could one day have exotic applications if we ever ...

String theory attempts to unify all four forces ... Known as the Standard Model, this theory describes the elementary particles and three of the four fundamental forces that serve as the building ...

Its crowning glory came in 2012 with the discovery of the Higgs boson, the particle that gives all other fundamental particles their mass, whose existence was predicted on the basis of quantum ...