Scientists have detected signals from the smallest scale of nature ever explored, a realm so infinitesimal that researchers have nicknamed it the "zeptoverse." The discovery stems from experiments conducted at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics.
The LHC is a massive machine that collides atoms together to break them apart, allowing scientists to study their constituent parts. This latest research, led by scientists based in Cambridge, has probed this new frontier of physics.
The findings are considered significant as they could potentially contribute to the development of a more comprehensive theory of the universe's workings. BBC science correspondent Pallab Ghosh explained the immense scale of this discovery, noting it is 100 billion times smaller than an atom.