Particle physics is a curious discipline. Its key theory, the Standard Model – our best understanding of how the basic building blocks of matter are governed by three of the four fundamental forces – ...

The European Space Agency is considering a unique experiment that could explain strange gravitational phenomena in the outer solar system Since 1998 astronomers have known that the space probes ...

When the universe was just a few microseconds old, it existed as a strange soupy substance called quark-gluon plasma (QGP), which exhibits a whole host of unusual quantum effects. Now, for the first ...

"The cosmic dipole anomaly has thus established itself as a major challenge to the standard cosmological model, even if the ...

New scientific results confirm an anomaly seen in previous experiments, which may point to an as-yet-unconfirmed new elementary particle, the sterile neutrino, or indicate the need for a new ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A new calculation clarifies the complicated relationship between protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus and offers a fascinating resolution of the famous NuTeV Anomaly. A new calculation clarifies ...

The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. My colleagues and I have published a new study that suggests ...

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is designed to probe the fringes of known physics, and now the facility has found particles not behaving as predicted. While it’s still early days, the discovery ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb highlights 3I/ATLAS' baffling sunward jet after a 16° gravitational twist, defying known comet physics.

The unusual trajectories of the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft as they leave the solar system are not caused by any exotic new physics but by mundane thermal emissions powered by radioactive decay. That ...