For years, one tiny mismatch in particle physics carried outsized hopes. The muon, a heavier and short-lived cousin 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 ...

A major physics experiment has uncovered evidence for a strange new form of matter, where a fleeting particle gets trapped ...

MIT researchers bridge worlds of classical and quantum physics. (Representational image)Mark Garlick A new study by ...

A tiny discrepancy in particle physics has loomed for decades as an exciting possible crack in one of science's most ...

MIT scientists showed that certain mathematical ideas from everyday classical physics can be used to describe the often weird and nonintuitive behavior that occurs at the quantum, subatomic scale.

A tiny discrepancy in particle physics has loomed for decades as an exciting possible crack in one of science’s most successful theories, hinting at unknown forces or quantum objects. Now, an ...

A University of Washington professor and hundreds of others who measured the muon's magnetism have won a $3 million ...

Lawrence Gibbons, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, is among the researchers awarded the 2026 ...