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Julia Gao is the latest Future Leaders winner. She's a rising junior at Fairview High School in Boulder. Beyond a tough ...

Quarks unexpectedly breaking symmetry in a recent experiment may transform our fundamental understanding of matter and the ...

A fresh subatomic particle discovered by scientists might change our knowledge of the universe’s fundamental blocks. This exciting discovery might inspire changes or rewrites of the Standard ...

A team of physicists has embarked on a journey where few others have gone: into the glue that binds atomic nuclei. The ...

Symmetry has been considered an unshakable property in physics, but strange quark behavior caused it to fail in a scientific ...

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A SUBATOMIC particle is a particle that composes an atom. Everything in the universe is made of atoms, microscopic pieces of matter. Atoms are incredibly tiny and are difficult to see even under a ...

Muons, like electrons, are subatomic particles that carry negative electrical charge; unlike electrons, muons decay after a few millionths of a second. Still, scientists readily encounter muons in ...

Researchers propose a new theory for the origin of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to give the universe its ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - The peculiar wobble of a subatomic particle called a muon in a U.S. laboratory experiment is making scientists increasingly suspect they are missing something in ...