For years, one tiny mismatch in particle physics carried outsized hopes. The muon, a heavier and short-lived cousin of the ...

Physicists have spent the last 20 years pondering an apparent discrepancy between experimental results and theoretical ...

For decades, scientists studying the muon have been puzzled by a strange pattern in the way muons rotate in magnetic fields, one that left physicists wondering if it can be explained by the Standard ...

A major obstacle in calculating the muon’s behavior is the strong force, the most powerful of the four fundamental forces, along with gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak force. It binds quarks ...

A tiny discrepancy in particle physics has loomed for decades as an exciting possible crack in one of science's most ...

At more than one million degrees, the sun's atmosphere—the corona—is incredibly hot; but not everywhere. Time and again, huge ...

New nitride materials could let electricity control hidden magnetic spin patterns, pointing toward faster and more stable ...

Jupiter and Saturn, these two giant and gaseous planets, are similar in size but present a striking contrast: their moon ...