A violent solar storm earlier this year did more than paint the polar skies with auroras. It also triggered a sharp, highly unusual surge of energetic protons that briefly flooded low Earth orbit, and ...

Nonconformists could take a page from the proton’s playbook: The subatomic particle is once again resisting scientists’ attempts to size it up. Everyone agrees the proton is tiny: Its radius is less ...

A number of advanced energy technologies—including fuel cells, electrolyzers, and an emerging class of low-power electronics—use protons as the key charge carrier. Whether or not these devices will be ...

Like a quantum version of a whirling top, protons have angular momentum, known as spin. But the source of the subatomic particles’ spin has confounded physicists. Now scientists have confirmed that ...

Protons can hold an elementary particle heavier than themselves. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Protons may have more "charm" ...

Researchers have made a precise measurement of the size of the proton -- a crucial step towards solving a mystery that has preoccupied scientists around the world for the past decade. The world's ...

A model developed by researchers at MIT can help predict proton movement inside materials based on hydrogen bond length and lattice flexibility.

Using the first new method in half a century for measuring the size of the proton via electron scattering, scientists have produced a new value for the proton's radius in a new experiment. Using the ...

The proton packs were invented by two of the Ghostbusters, and not only look cool, but have a realistic scientific basis. The proton pack works as an unlicensed nuclear accelerator using carbon 14 and ...

How big is a proton? Unlike an electron or neutrino, which are fundamental particles that behave like points, a proton is a messy collection of quarks, gluons, and virtual particles that occupies what ...

If you got aboard the Magic School Bus and started shrinking — smaller than an ant or an amoeba or a single cell, and then kept shrinking until single atoms were as big as whole worlds, and even their ...