Researchers dedicated to a decades-long quest to measure the magnetic properties of the subatomic muon particle have won one ...

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

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The peculiar wobble of a subatomic particle called a muon in a U.S. laboratory experiment is making scientists increasingly suspect they are missing something in their ...

A Cornell University physicist is among an international group of researchers recognized with one of science’s most ...

Scientists from collaborations at Fermilab, CERN and Brookhaven National Laboratory have won the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in ...

An international team of physicists has achieved a breakthrough in understanding something that has puzzled scientists for ...

Physicists may have yet another fundamental particle left to discover. When physicists at the Large Hardon Collider discovered the Higgs boson back in 2012, they’d found the last missing piece of the ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Esra Barlas Yücel, a researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, about Fermilab's most precise measurements of the muon particle's magnetic wobble. It's ...

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“It is astonishing that human beings can measure anything to such precision,” says Tsutomu Mibe, a particle physicist at ...