The magnetic moment of the muon is an important precision parameter for putting the Standard Model of particle physics to the test. After years of work, the research group led by Professor Hartmut ...

19 Dec 2024

In our roundup of 2024's top science stories, we feature particle physics research to two-billion-year-old rocks that yielded live microbes.

20 Dec 2024

Scientists at CERN's ALICE detector are replicating conditions found during the Big Bang, attempting to get to the bottom of how matter came to dominate over antimatter.

19 Dec 2024

Scientists have found evidence of a strange state of matter called a quantum spin liquid in a material known as pyrochlore cerium stannate. In this mysterious state, magnetic particles don’t settle ...

20 Dec 2024

Using dual lasers and an advanced gas injection system, researchers at th Lab Laser Accelerator Center (BELLA) accelerated a high-quality electron beam to 10 billion electronvolts (10 GeV) over a ...

19 Dec 2024

String theory remains elusive as a “provable” phenomenon. But a team of physicists has now taken a significant step forward in validating string theory by using an innovative mathematical method that ...

17 Dec 2024

The orbital angular momentum states of light have been used to relate quantum uncertainty to wave–particle duality. The experiment was done by physicists in Europe and confirms a 2014 theoretical ...

16 Dec 2024

These particles, called semi-Dirac fermions, appear to defy the classical laws of physics and could revolutionize the field of materials and their technological applications. The discovery occurred in ...

20 Dec 2024

As physicists around the world plan for the science of the future, the Sanford Underground Research Facility and its planned expansion remain vitally important.

21 Dec 2024

This latest clue about the architecture of consciousness supports a Nobel Prize winner's theory about how quantum physics works in your brain.

19 Dec 2024

The UFO I saw in 1967 turned out to be prank. It taught me an important lesson about science.

20 Dec 2024

A cheap method for forming the tiny components of chips, such as transistors and diodes, harnesses simple fluid physics to make the electronics self-assembling ...

16 Dec 2024