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No new particles: artist’s impression of how virtual particles could give the electron an electric dipole moment. (Courtesy: Nicolle Fuller/NSF) It is well known that the electron has a magnetic ...

Principles of supersymmetry have been used to boost the performance of an array of solid-state lasers. The work was led by Mercedeh Khajavikhan at the University of Central Florida in the US. Her team ...

The following is an excerpt of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray by Sabine Hossenfelder. I’ve noted on our quest to understand what the world is made of, we have found twenty-five ...

Is Nature Supersymmetric? Howard E. Haber and Gordon L. Kane; June 1986. The Dawn of Physics beyond the Standard Model. Gordon Kane; June 2003. Out of the Darkness. Georgi Dvali; February 2004. Does ...

Quantum mechanics forms the bedrock of modern physics, describing phenomena at the smallest scales through a probabilistic framework. Supersymmetry extends this paradigm by positing a fundamental ...

There's something mysterious coming up from the frozen ground in Antarctica, and it could break physics as we know it. Physicists don't know what it is exactly. But they do know it's some sort of ...

Ring microlasers are eyed as potential light sources for photonic applications, but they first must be made more powerful. Combining multiple microlasers into an array solves only half of the problem, ...

The governing theory of particle physics explains everything about the subatomic world … except for the parts that it doesn't. And unfortunately, there aren't a lot of flattering adjectives that can ...

If Shakespeare were alive today, he’d write a tragedy about physics. I think he’d call it Romeo and SUSY. It would start out with Romeo, a kind of avatar for all theoretical physicists, falling deeply ...