The muon mismatch was caused by calculation limits, not a new force. Improved methods bring theory and experiment into close ...

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 ...

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 ...

A major obstacle in calculating the muon’s behavior is the strong force, the most powerful of the four fundamental forces, along with gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak force. It binds quarks ...

Muon-catalyzed fusion is one of those strange concepts that’s been promising enough to keep ...

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

A U.S. research lab has announced one of the most precise measurements ever of how a subatomic particle behaves, teeing up a showdown that could either vindicate one of science’s most powerful ...

The 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics has been awarded to the Muon g‑2 collaborations at CERN, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Fermilab for achieving the most precise measurement of ...