Physicists may have just cracked open a hidden side of the quantum world. For decades, every known particle was thought to belong to one of two categories — bosons or fermions — but researchers have ...

Muons are a key subatomic particle in the discovery of new physics, but after particle collision, they’re difficult to track.

Human-made microbeads don’t always go with the flow. Under certain conditions, the artificial particles can align themselves with a fluid’s flow and then swim upstream, researchers report May 1 in ...

But such measurements are notoriously challenging: the instruments used are themselves governed by quantum laws, and their interaction with particles can alter the very properties they are meant to ...

For decades, scientists have explored the enigmatic world of fundamental particles, uncovering the building blocks of our universe. But what if some of these particles, once deemed impossible, ...

Neutrinos are so tiny, so nearly massless, that they’re very difficult to isolate. But we know for sure that they’re produced ...

If you’re superstitious, a black cat in your path is bad luck, even if you keep your distance. Likewise, in quantum physics, particles can feel the influence of magnetic fields that they never come ...

Suvarna Ramachandran and Jimin George won the Breakthrough Prize for their work on the Muon g-2 experiment, achieving an unprecedentedly precise measurement of the muon's magnetic moment.

A clean home often looks like polished surfaces and organized shelves. True health happens at a microscopic level where air ...