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…

2 months 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…

11 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…

12 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…

1 year 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…

2 years ago