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 ...

Scientists say they've solved a decade-old puzzle about the enigmatic 'strange quark', one of the fundamental building blocks of matter. Their findings, published recently in the journal Physical ...

Gravitational waves could reveal whether the quark soup that existed in the early Universe is created in neutron-star mergers Telltale signatures in gravitational-wave signals from merging neutron ...

All of the mysterious worlds orbit superdense neutron stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have identified about a ...

A suppression of strange quark production relative to up and down quark production had previously been noted; for the first time, the result has been verified when a single pair is produced. Protons ...

Strange Quark comic strips. The comic strips are published on Professor Durfee's website every day at midnight. (Dallin Durfee) During the day, he's a BYU professor in the physics and astronomy ...

Nuclear physicists have found that strange quarks do contribute to the structure of the proton. This result indicates that, just as previous experiments have hinted, strange quarks in the proton's ...

Surprising observation: evidence for lambda baryons and the involvement of diquarks in their production has been spotted in data taken at Jefferson Lab's CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer. (Courtesy ...

One of the most important observations in particle physics was the discovery in 1964 of the Omega-minus baryon at Brookhaven National Laboratory. In the two decades leading up to this point over 27 ...

So far, the LHC has been spending its time ramming protons together, leaving Brookhaven’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) the king of the hill when it comes to smashing larger atomic nuclei.

Astronomers have identified about a half dozen exoplanets that may be made of an exotic matter known as “strange matter” unknown on Earth. The atoms that make up conventional matter have nuclei made ...