Physicists with the Beijing Spectrometer III (BES III) experiment have uncovered convincing new evidence of the existence of so-called glueballs, […]
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What happens when you try to chop a photon in half?
A mirror that moves mid-photon could release a shower of new photons. A photon is a single particle of light, […]
Physicists think they’ve solved the muon mystery
Skip to content Standard Model still holding strong Results dash hopes for a fifth force but provide very precise proof […]
Physicists think they’ve resolved the proton size puzzle
“We believe this is the final nail in the coffin of the proton radius puzzle.” Image of a hydrogen atom’s […]
No sterile neutrinos after all, say MicroBooNE physicists
Since the 1990s, physicists have pondered the tantalizing possibility of an exotic fourth type of neutrino, dubbed the “sterile” neutrino, […]