For a mere moment after the Big Bang, no neutrons or protons are thought to have existed. These neutral and positively charged particles, respectively, make up the center of all atoms today. But ...

For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based ...

After 25 years of experiments recreating early-universe matter, Brookhaven's RHIC has completed its final particle collisions ...

Just after 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, final beams of oxygen ions—oxygen atoms stripped of their electrons—circulated ...

For more than two decades, researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s particle accelerator have recreated conditions ...