Describing matter under extreme conditions, such as those found inside neutron stars, remains an unsolved problem. The density of such matter is equivalent to compressing around 100,000 Eiffel Towers ...

Newly discovered particles have incited a fierce debate among experts about the correct picture of matter at the quantum scale. In August 2003, an experiment at the KEKB particle accelerator in Japan ...

Quarks come in six different 'flavours' and possess a 'colour charge' A collaboration of particle physicists in Europe and North America have calculated the mass of strange quarks to an accuracy of ...