Using a groundbreaking new technique at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an international collaboration led by NIST researchers has revealed previously unrecognized ...

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Manhattan-born physicist Murray Gell-Mann, who revolutionized the discovery and classification of subatomic particles, died Friday at the age of 89. Famous for detecting a slew of theoretical specks, ...

Almost anything is possible — at least for a subatomic particle. One of the many mystifying consequences of quantum mechanics — the rules that govern the behavior of tiny subatomic particles — is that ...