Muons might not behave as expected. But scientists can’t agree on what to expect. By taking stock of how the subatomic particles wobble in a magnetic field, physicists have pinned down a property of ...

A mysterious magnetic property of subatomic particles called muons hints that new fundamental particles may be lurking undiscovered. In a painstakingly precise experiment, muons’ gyrations within a ...

A subatomic particle called the muon is wobbling far more than leading physics models can explain. Its unusual behavior could be evidence of a fifth force of nature or a new dimension. Scientists ...

Two independent lines of evidence from the world’s most powerful particle experiments are converging on the same ...

Something genuinely strange has just happened in fundamental physics: an underground neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean ...

A Falcon 9 lifts off June 12 on the Transporter-8 rideshare mission. Credit: SpaceX webcast SAN FRANCISCO – Muon Space, a Silicon Valley startup building a climate-monitoring constellation, sent its ...

The muon—the short-lived cousin of the electron—could be the key to understanding relationships between other fundamental particles. And it holds a mystery all its own. In the 1930s, scientists ...

A prototype of a device that could someday detect nukes through layers of steel just passed its first test. The detector, which uses technology that was developed for particle physics experiments at ...