Why do avalanches start to slide? And what happens inside the "pile of snow?" If you ask yourself these questions, you are ...

The table below shows a comparison of the same substance in three different states. A single particle does not have the properties of the material it is part of. The properties of a substance are the ...

Javier Duarte kicked off his scientific career by witnessing the biggest particle physics event in decades. On July 4, 2012, scientists at the laboratory CERN near Geneva announced the discovery of ...

Tiny particles like ice crystals or ashes tend to oscillate as they settle in the atmosphere. By combining theory and experiments, scientists have constructed a model that can help refine predictions ...

Solids, liquids and gases. In a solid like this brick, the particles are regularly arranged touching their neighbours and move only by vibrating. This explains why solids have a fixed shape. In a ...

When we take a look at some of the greatest unsolved problems in theoretical physics today, there's something many of them have in common. According to the known particles and interactions, there ...

Breaking the rules is exciting, especially if they have held for a long time. This is true not just in life but also in particle physics. Here the rule I'm thinking of is called “lepton flavor ...

Senior Lecturer in Particle Physics Informatics, Brunel University of London It is often claimed that the Ancient Greeks were the first to identify objects that have no size, yet are able to build up ...