In 1919 Rutherford had discovered the proton ... that the atomic number (number of protons in the nucleus, equivalent to the positive charge of the atom) was less than the atomic mass (average ...

The discovery — made at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, near Geneva — has revealed that a short-lived cousin of protons and neutrons, the beauty-lambda baryon, decays at a different rate than ...

But in the early 1930s, scientists discovered that ... of a second. The atom is a complex system of particles. It’s made up of a central nucleus consisting of protons and neutrons, called ...

As if atoms weren’t already mind-blowingly small, never mind subatomic particles, CERN researchers in the CMS Collaboration were sifting through data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and ...