Star Trek fans have wondered why the finale of Deep Space Nine didn't make Quark the Grand Nagus. Here's what the writers had ...

What does quark-gluon plasma—the hot soup of elementary particles formed a few microseconds after the Big Bang—have in common with tap water? Scientists say it's the way it flows. A new study, ...

The quarks that make up the nuclei of all atoms around us are known to "mix": the different types of quark occasionally change into one another. The amounts in which these processes happen are not ...

If the word "quark" sparks memories of physics class, rest easy: a) I'm not qualified to write about physics; and b) that's not the kind of quark we're talking about. This quark is a cheesy, yogurt-y ...

When atomic nuclei smash together at nearly the speed of light, they create the hottest fluid in the universe, but scientists may have overlooked one of its most important forces. New simulations ...