Something has been lurking in empty space, and for the first time, physicists may have caught it leaving fingerprints. Quantum theory has long predicted that the vacuum seethes with virtual ...

Matter is built around quarks, forming the nuclei of the atoms and molecules. While there are six types of quarks, regular matter contains only two: up quarks and down quarks. Protons contain two ups ...

Strange matter only occurs under very specific circumstances -- and astrophysicists are getting closer to understanding what ...

Dec. 14, 2006 — According to the “Strange Matter Hypothesis,” which gained popularity in the paranormal 1980’s, nuclear matter, too, can be strange. The hypothesis suggests that small conglomerations ...

In particle physics, the term "strange matter" or "strange quark matter" refers to a hypothetical, soup-like existence, made of a trio of quarks. But what's so "strange" with this matter? According to ...

Physicists have announced the discovery of a new type of pentaquark 1. Most ordinary matter is made up of three-quark particles —protons and neutrons. The five-particle pentaquarks and their ...

In a unique analysis of experimental data, nuclear physicists have made observations of how lambda particles, so-called 'strange matter,' are produced by a specific process called semi-inclusive deep ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the middle of the glowing gas cloud of a supernova remnant, about 8,000 light years away, sits the crushed heart of a dead star. Astronomers recently discovered that this neutron star left behind ...