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

In classical physics, a vacuum is a total void—a true manifestation of nothingness. But quantum physics says that empty space isn’t really empty. Instead, it’s buzzing with “virtual” particles ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

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

A model for the structure of the electron is proposed, in which the electron is composed of electric tripole, i.e., a +1 ...

Sometimes, a major discovery is exactly what you were hoping not to find. That’s the case with a team at Penn State who seem ...

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

In the moiré material produced at ETH, the electron spins are disordered if there is exactly one electron per lattice site (left). As soon as there are more electrons than lattice sites (right) and ...

A newly measured value of an electron’s magnetic moment 1 — a property of its spin and charge — is twice as precise as the one physicists have used for the past 14 years. The electron magnetic moment ...

An experiment carried out at CERN's ISOLDE facility has determined the western shore of a small island of atomic nuclei, where conventional nuclear rules break down. Multiferroic materials, in which ...