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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.

In the world of particle physics, you are never alone — quite literally. Every moment there is an invisible rainstorm of subatomic particles falling down on us from space. Unlike the kind of matter we ...

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In this 2018 photo made available by CERN, Nikolai Bondar. works on the LHCb Muon system at the Large Hadron Collider facility outside of Geneva. (Maximilien Brice, Julien Marius Ordan/CERN via AP) ...

Preliminary results from two experiments suggest something could be wrong with the basic way physicists think the universe works, a prospect that has the field of particle physics both baffled and ...