One of the most ubiquitous subatomic particles in the universe, the muon, seems to be misbehaving. Or at least, it isn't behaving the way physicists expect. In fact, muons are deviating so much from ...

Tiny grains of dust floating inside a glowing plasma should, according to decades of theory, push and pull on each other in predictable ways. But when physicists at Emory University turned a ...

A groundbreaking new material bends the rules of physics by combining surprising strength with impressive stretch. Scientists have long faced a trade-off in materials science: the stiffer something is ...

At the Columbia Plasma Physics Lab, researchers are tackling one of the most pressing challenges in creating clean energy: making nuclear fusion a viable power source. Unlike nuclear fission—the type ...

A new study suggests subatomic particles called muons are breaking the laws of physics. This may mean a mysterious force is affecting muons, which would make our understanding of physics incomplete.