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 ...

Puzzling problem: Karsten Schuhmann (left) and Aldo Antognini of the Paul Scherrer Institute inspect the laser system that was used for the laser spectroscopy measurements on muonic deuterium.

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 ...

Physicists get closer to solving the proton radius puzzle with unique new measurement of the charge radius of the proton Textbook pictures make atomic nuclei seem tidy, but they are actually fuzzy ...

An international team of scientists working with the Event Horizon Telescope project have been able to measure the radius of a black hole for the first time. It was in 1781 that astronomer Charles ...

A discrepancy in the measured size of the “deuteron” increases the chance that something is amiss in our understanding of atoms. The same group that discovered a curious discrepancy in measurements of ...

More than 2,000 years ago, pretty much every educated human knew the Earth was round. There are some pretty obvious clues, after all. If you travel south, you see stars and constellations you’ve never ...

TORONTO, September 5, 2019 - York University 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 ...