Fermions

A five-year experiment is underway in central Italy to determine whether the decay of heavy neutrinos shortly after the Big Bang can explain why the universe is composed mostly of matter and very little antimatter.

Every particle has an antiparticle, which has the opposite charge. But it’s long been theorized that there’s an exception to the rule, with certain particles that are actually their own antiparticles. Now, scientists have found the first strong evidence for what they dub the “angel particle.”

​Glueballs are long sought-after exotic particles, created from pure force. Researchers at TU Wien claim to have discovered this mysterious particle in the remnants of collisions in particle accelerators.

Researchers working at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) claim to have created a microscope able to image fermions; the fundamental particles that make up all matter in the universe.