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 ...

Dark matter appears to hold galaxies together, yet it has never shown itself directly. A new theory suggests the missing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Current theories suggest that W and Z bosons acquire mass from interactions with the Higgs scalar field, but a new study suggests ...

The mysterious substance that binds galaxies together could naturally be "in tune" with a hidden fifth dimension, according ...

Theoretical physicists have proposed a new particle existing in a warped fifth dimension that could connect ordinary matter to elusive dark matter, which makes up about 85% of the universe’s mass. The ...

A new particle detector called PLATON could replace millions of tiny detector components with a single block of ...

MADISON – When the world’s most powerful particle accelerator starts up later this year, exotic new particles may offer a glimpse of the existence and shapes of extra dimensions. Researchers from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The researchers found a way to identify and control anyons. (Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images) Restricting a strange class of particles ...

A new theoretical framework suggests dark matter’s elusive behavior may arise from the geometry of a hidden fifth dimension.

When it comes to understanding the fabric of the universe, most of what scientists think exists is consigned to a dark, murky domain. Ordinary matter, the stuff we can see and touch, accounts for just ...

Current theories suggest that W and Z bosons acquire mass from interactions with the Higgs scalar field, but a new study suggests that the higher dimensional structure of spacetime could be the actual ...