
What's inside a quark? | Questions | Naked Scientists
Sep 10, 2019 · If you could break open a quark, what would you find inside?
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Finding the God Equation | Podcasts | Naked Scientists
May 26, 2021 · What is the symmetry? Four dimensional rotations in Lorentz space. Now let's take a look at the quark model. The quark model, which is a model for the inside of the proton, has three …
Tetraquarks: new configurations of subatomic particles discovered
Mar 16, 2021 · Researchers using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN say they’ve recently discovered a new exotic form of subatomic particles called tetraquarks. They exist for just fractions of a second, so …
How do atoms make colours? | Questions | Naked Scientists
Jun 22, 2008 · The biggest effect is actually what colour something absorbs. Different colours of light have different energies. The bluer the light, and light comes in blobs called photons, the more energy …
Why do you go red when sunburnt? | Science Questions
Jan 6, 2008 · Chris - Would anti-inflammatories, like aspirin, make you feel better if you've got sunburn? Kat - They'll help to relive the pain, and they may help to take the inflammation down, but of course …
Fossil Feathers in Colour - Planet Earth Online | Interviews
Dec 18, 2011 · An international team led by Roy Wogelius from the University of Manchester has developed a new technique that reveals the colour, and even chemistry, of fossil birds – birds that …
What are magnets made of? | Science Questions - The Naked Scientists
Oct 1, 2006 · Magnets are very useful things: you can stick things to fridges with them and they're very important in things like hard disk drives in your computer. You can even make levitating trains with …
Why do doctors remove air from syringes? | Science Questions
Apr 20, 2008 · When you are given an injection why is the doctor or nurse very careful to make sure there is no air in the barrel of the syringe? Because when you cut yourself it doesn’t matter, there’s …
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) | Science Features
Dec 1, 2009 · The nucleus itself is made up of smaller particles, protons and neutrons, which in turn are made up of the 1st generation quarks - the up quark and the down quark. The electron-neutrino is a …