Protons might be stretchier than they should be. The subatomic particles are built of smaller particles called quarks, which are bound together by a powerful interaction known as the strong force. New ...

Physics at the smallest scales is a challenge of observation: Particles are often fleeting, and the forces that govern their behavior are nearly imperceptible. But now, by exploiting decades-old data ...

Irradiation with proton minibeams creates a highly heterogeneous dose distribution inside a rat’s head. (Courtesy: Sci. Reports 10.1038/s41598-018-34796-8/CC BY 4.0) High-grade gliomas such as ...

For almost a decade, physicists have been baffled by the so-called proton radium puzzle: using different methods of measurement, they obtained two numbers that are slightly yet significantly different ...

Setting the standard: NPL’s portable calorimeter provides a more accurate reference point for proton-beam dosimetry. (Courtesy: NPL) “PPRIG was set up by NPL in 2012 to progress UK deployment of ...

John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis get the award for demonstrating quantum mechanical effects at the macroscale ...

Although the building blocks of life such as hydrogen and oxygen appear stable to us, many theories of physics predict that they are actually just tremendously long-lived, with the particles found in ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C., July 20, 2009 -- Proton therapy -- which uses beams of the subatomic particles to treat cancer -- is a hot topic at this year's American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) ...

The first randomized trial to compare photon- and proton-based radiation therapy for breast cancer finds that patients report ...

How big is a proton? This doesn't sound like a very complicated question, but it's one that turned out to have the potential to wreck a lot of modern physics. That's because different methods of ...