Something odd is happening deep inside the data streams from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. A set of “forbidden” patterns in how unstable particles decay, combined with rare Higgs events and a ...

A surprising and rare particle decay has left scientists puzzled as kaons, particles made up of quarks, are decaying in ways that defy current physics models. Could this anomaly indicate the existence ...

Once in a very great while, an ephemeral particle called a kaon arises and then quickly decays away into three other obscure entities. Whether or not this happens in a particular way has very little ...

Area laws for entanglement in quantum many-body systems give useful information about their low-temperature behaviour and are tightly connected to the possibility of good numerical simulations. An ...

Xueting Yang and his team at the CERN nuclear research center have observed that matter and antimatter behave differently during the decay of heavy, subatomic particles – known as baryons. The ...

It is well-known that a radioactive substance follows a fixed exponential decay, no matter what you do to it. The fact has been set in stone since 1930 when the “father” of nuclear physics Ernest ...

The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE physics students studying stable nuclei, nuclear radiation, half life and nuclear equations. If you struggled with the quiz, don't panic - we've got ...

A very rare phenomenon has just been observed at CERN. The decay of a charged kaon into a pion and neutrinos is intriguing scientists. This exceedingly rare process could open a new door to unknown ...