A bright, starburst-like cluster glows against a black background. Fine orange and white streaks radiate from its densely sparkling centre, interspersed with winding blue and purple trails. A yellow beam cuts diagonally through the centre, from upper left to lower right.Image source, CERN/Getty Images
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Many sub-atomic particles are created by smashing the insides of atoms together

ByPallab Ghosh, Science correspondent and Josh Falcon, BBC News Science
  • Published18 minutes ago

Scientists have picked up signals from the smallest scale of nature ever explored – 100 billion times smaller than an atom.

A world so small that some physicists have nicknamed it the zeptoverse.

The research, led by scientists based in Cambridge, was obtained from an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).