Physicists are quietly testing an audacious idea: that the mass of everything around us might not come from an invisible ...

Physicists have spent decades treating mass as something the universe simply hands to particles, a property encoded in ...

Atoms are very small. They have a radius of around 1 × 10 10 metres. This symbol shows that chlorine has 35 particles in the nucleus (protons and neutrons), 17 of which are protons. It also tells us ...

From the macroscopic to the microscopic physical properties of the world around us, condensed-matter and materials-science research have a huge impact on daily life. And yet, as James Kakalios ...