For nearly a hundred years, every known particle in the universe belonged to one of two camps. Bosons, like photons, can ...

For nearly a century, every particle in the quantum world has fallen into one of two camps. Bosons, like photons, happily ...

Physicists may have just cracked open a hidden side of the quantum world. For decades, every known particle was thought to ...

Definition: Majorana fermions are enigmatic particles that act as their own antiparticles, distinguished by their neutral charge and the ability to annihilate themselves. Their theoretical existence ...

Unlike active galactic nuclei (AGN) that emit lethal levels of X-ray radiation, the centers of the Milky Way and these little ...

The fermionizer: physicists have used this experimental set-up to make bosonic atoms behave like fermions. (Courtesy: Nate Follmer/Penn State) Physicists in the US have shown that normally gregarious ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. There are only two types of fundamental particle known in the entire ...

The difference between bosons and fermions is just spin. But in physics, this is a fundamental difference. Bosuns and bosoms are of course completely different again The word boson causes no end of ...

Physicists in the Netherlands say that they have found the first evidence for the existence of “Majorana fermions” – particles that are their own antiparticles. The researchers claim to have spotted ...

Quasiparticles that behave like massless fermions, known as Weyl fermions, have been in recent years at the center of a string of exciting findings in condensed matter physics. Physicists now report ...