Physicists may have just cracked open a hidden side of the quantum world. For decades, every known particle was thought to ...

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

For the first time, scientists have observed electrons in graphene behaving like a nearly perfect quantum fluid, challenging a long-standing puzzle in physics. By creating ultra-clean samples, the ...

A class of glass that cannot crystallize, even given infinite time, is forcing physicists to rethink some of the oldest assumptions about how disordered materials behave. Built from theoretical models ...

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A tiny discrepancy in particle physics has loomed for decades as an exciting possible crack in one of science's most successful theories, hinting at unknown forces or quantum objects. Now, an ...

Artist’s conception of the mystery of the magnetic moment of the muon—a sub-atomic particle similar to, but heavier than, an electron (represented by the Greek letter mu). More than half a century of ...