particle

Scientists were wrong about this “rule-breaking” particle

For decades, a puzzling discrepancy involving a tiny subatomic particle called the muon fueled speculation that physicists might be on…

3 weeks ago

The Sun’s hidden particle engines finally exposed

The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter mission has split the flood of energetic particles flung out into space from the…

9 months ago

New Inelastic Dark Matter Model Could Bypass Current Limits of Particle Detection

A group of physicists at the University of São Paulo's Institute of Physics has proposed a model of the behaviour…

10 months ago

Can one vanishing particle shatter string theory — and explain dark matter?

Researchers from Penn and Arizona State University pinpoint a lone five-particle package (a 5-plet) that could upend string theory by…

11 months ago

New study unveils breakthrough in understanding cosmic particle accelerators

Scientists have come a step closer to understanding how collisionless shock waves -- found throughout the universe -- are able…

1 year ago