Woodpecker. Spider species. Nuclear particle. For anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, the varied list of namesakes keeps growing. In July last year, just in time for his birthday, scientists named a ...

At scales too small for the human eye to see, there is an entire zoo of subatomic particles with bizarre names like baryon, pion, and quark. And physicists have only just begun to unveil the curtain ...

It's not everyday that scientists observe a brand new particle, but today is one of those rare breakthroughs in history. A team of physicists at Princeton University and the University of Texas at ...

A sub-atomic particle predicted to exist by physicists has been detected for the first time in a particle accelerator in California – but its properties do not fit with theory. The particle, called Ds ...

Scientists said Wednesday that they had discovered a new particle whose characteristics match those of the Higgs boson, the most sought-after particle in physics, which could help unlock some of the ...