NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Esra Barlas Yücel, a researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, about Fermilab's most precise measurements of the muon particle's magnetic wobble. It's ...

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Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have uncovered new hints that certain particle decays may not behave as the ...

In her second pop-science book, theoretical cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein returns to her celestial and cultural roots.

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An atom is so small you can’t see it, but atoms are everywhere. However, scientists have found that the atom is made up of ...

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At a fundamental level, what is our Universe made of? This question has driven physics forward for centuries. Even with all the advances we've made, we still don't know it all. While the Large Hadron ...