One of the best-performing models in cosmology is also one with the least physical rationale behind it. Columnist Leah Crane ...

A class of glass that cannot crystallize, even given infinite time, is forcing physicists to rethink some of the oldest assumptions about how disordered materials behave. Built from theoretical models ...

A tiny discrepancy in particle physics has loomed for decades as an exciting possible crack in one of science’s most ...

Artist’s conception of the mystery of the magnetic moment of the muon—a sub-atomic particle similar to, but heavier than, an electron (represented by the Greek letter mu). More than half a century of ...