Members of the STAR collaboration, a group of physicists collecting and analyzing data from particle collisions at the ...

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...

What's new in proton therapy? Read the latest news and views from Fred Hutch's proton therapy facility’s patients and ...

A researcher, Heikki Mäntysaari from the University of Jyväskylä (Finland), has been part of an international research group ...

Particles similar to axions, the leading candidate for dark matter that has long eluded detection, may have already been ...

While an eternal and infinite universe is appealing, the idea does not fit in with modern observations of redshift and galaxy ...

“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Scientists discovered a method to create element 116 using a titanium beam, paving the way for future synthesis of element ...

Use of proton therapy has increased overall in the United States, but Black patients are getting it less often than white ...

A new phase III clinical trial finds that intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and proton beam therapy resulted in ...

The first randomized trial to compare photon- and proton-based radiation therapy for breast cancer finds that patients report ...