At CERN’s Large Hadron Collider on the edge of Geneva, scientists have reported a surprising twist in the behavior of matter.

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may make all the difference. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Protons, made of three quarks, colliding For the first time, scientists have created oxygen-28, a rare oxygen isotope that has 12 ...