Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. The internal structure of a proton, with quarks, gluons, and quark spin ...

Core mystery: The different layers of matter in a neutron star. (Courtesy: Jyrki Hokkanen, CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd, Finland) A long-standing debate about what lies at the heart of neutron ...

All of us probably know what neutrons are, or have at least heard of them back in physics class. Yet these little bundles of quarks are much more than just filler inside an atom’s nucleus. In addition ...

i know a neutron is made of two down quarks and one up quark and yet the neutrino is made up of electron neutrino, muon neutrino and tau neutrino. Click to expand... The neutron is a composite entity; ...

An experiment more than 10 years in the making has delivered its first glimpse of the hurricane of particles whirring inside subatomic particles called neutrons, laying the groundwork to solve a ...

For the first time, quarks and gluons were used to describe properties of atomic nuclei, which until now had been explained by the existence of protons and neutrons. The temporary pair of correlated ...

Some neutron stars probably have something strange lurking in their cores, according to a recent study. Neutron stars are already some of the most peculiar objects in the universe. They contain enough ...