Quantum billiard balls: Digging deeper into light-assisted atomic collisions
When atoms collide, their exact structure—for example, the number of electrons they have or even the quantum spin of their ...
Decades-old mystery solved: X-ray techniques reveal sulfur hexafluoride dissociation dynamics
An international team of scientists has unveiled new insights into the dissociation dynamics of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) ...
Scientists Thought They Made a Mistake – But It Led to a Groundbreaking “Molecular Einstein” Discovery
A strange molecular pattern, first mistaken for an error, led researchers to an unexpected discovery: molecules forming ...
Not So Random After All: Scientists Uncover Surprising New Clues to the Origin of Life
New research shows that fluctuating environmental conditions helped chemical mixtures self-organize and evolve in structured ...
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The muon’s magnetic moment exposes a huge hole in the Standard Model – unless it doesn’t
Alex Keshavarzi digs into the showdown between two competing Standard Model predictions of the muon, which may reveal undiscovered particles hiding in the vacuum ...