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Nature, Published online: 01 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01452-5 The positive scientific developments that you might have missed. Plus, these exotic particles could finally break the Standard Model.

The magnetic moment of an electron is about 700 times bigger than that of a proton. Both have spin 1/2, but in equal external magnetic field, the energy of an unpaired electron is about 700 times bigger than the energy of an unpaired proton. (All nuclei other than the triton have magnetic... Read more

This paper examines the ontological status of resonance signals in high-energy physics, focusing on the interpretation of tetraquark and pentaquark states. Within a closed variational framework, physical existence is defined exclusively by stationary configurations selected by a global decisional functional. Experimental configurations, by contrast, are shown to be externally sustained, non-stati…

An update to an experiment run by Henry Cavendish in 1773 could be a cheaper and faster way to spot a potential dark matter particle – and may be 10,000 times more sensitive

_Https://Doi.Org/10.5281/Zenodo.20022636_. 2026This paper presents a universal framework for evaluating structural stability as a measure of system viability across domains. Rather than introducing new physical mechanisms, it provides a non-interfering interpretive layer applied to the outputs of existing theories. Any system that produces structure—whether in electromagnetic propagation, quantum…

_a Unified Theory of Consciousness_. forthcomingThe matter-antimatter asymmetry has been the most fundamental unsolved problem in physics for sixty years. The Standard Model's CP-violation mechanisms are roughly ten orders of magnitude too small to account for the observed asymmetry. Speculative baryogenesis frameworks have not closed the gap. This paper argues that the failure to close the gap f…

Interview of Mikhail Shifman by David Zierler on July 7, 2021, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA [aip:oral-histories/47523] On the Chern-Simons level renormalization (shift by the dual Coxeter number): On superalgebra, supergeometry, supersymmetry, supergravity and superstrings: Mikhail Shifman (ed.) Yuri Golfand memorial volume World Scientific, 2…

I am detaching this to BSM because it is already getting too much parameters in the bag. What has happened this year is that Werner Rodejohann and He Zhang, from the MPI in Heidelberg, proposed that the quark sector did not need to match triplets following weak isospin, and then empirically... Read more

Nature Communications, Published online: 02 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-72697-x Spatiotemporally structured laser fields are attracting interest for laser-based particle acceleration schemes. Here, the authors introduce transversely pumped acceleration, demonstrating potential practical advantage over previously established schemes and opening towards compact accelerators for applications.

i've been studying proton stability and i'm particularly interested in how Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) predict baryon number violation, in contrast to the Standard Model. could you recommend some comprehensive review papers on this topic? i’m also interested in recent experimental results... Read more

i've been studying proton stability and i'm particularly interested in how Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) predict baryon number violation, in contrast to the Standard Model. could you recommend some comprehensive review papers on this topic? i’m also interested in recent experimental results... Read more

fields and particles in particle physics and in the standard model of particle physics: matter field fermions (spinors, Dirac fields) (also: antiparticles) hadrons (bound states of the above quarks) bosinos: dark matter candidates Exotica Skyrme had studied with attention Kelvin's ideas on vortex atoms. A Skyrmion is a soliton in certain (flavour) gauge field theories. The concept exists quite ge…

Physics has known for decades that most of the universe is missing. A new theory names the particle responsible, one that exists in a dimension beyond anything humans have ever measured.

Nature, Published online: 01 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01387-x ‘Penguin’ decays from CERN’s latest Large Hadron Collider experiment hint at weird new physics.

I know gravitons are theoretical, but do you have any ideas on how an abject could absorb more gravitons. Maybe if you increase the number of electrons?

Hi, what effect do gravitons have on electrons. I know with photons the electrons absorb the photons and leave the atom. Would gravitons have the same effect?

SubMIT: A Physics Analysis Facility at MIT Acosta, P.; Bendavid, J.; D’Alfonso, M.; Eysermans, J.; Freer, C.; Goncharov, M.; Heine, M.; Lavezzo, L.; Newman, D.; Moore, M.; Paus, C.; Shen, X.; Walter, D.; Wang, Z. The recently completed SubMIT platform is a small set of servers that provide interactive access to substantial data samples at high speeds, enabling sophisticated data analyses with ver…

Argonne has pioneered accelerator science for more than seven decades, building machines that reveal the structure of matter and power breakthroughs across medicine, energy, security and materials.

Yongmin Cho On the dual superconductor model of color confinement: Y. M. Cho: Colored Monopoles, Phys. Rev. Lett. 44 (1980) 1115, Erratum Phys. Rev. Lett. 44 (1980) 1566 [doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.44.1115] Y. M. Cho, D. G. Pak: Magnetic Confinement in QCD, J. Korean Phys. Soc. 38 (2001) 151–154 [arXiv:hep-th/9906198] Y. M. Cho, D. G. Pak: Dynamical Symmetry Breaking and Magnetic Confinement in QCD …

Introducing what came to be called the Skyrme-Fadeev model and its Hopfion solitons: Ludwig D. Faddeev: Quantization of Solitons, talk at ICHEP 76 (1975) [inSpire:2631] Ludwig D. Faddeev, Antti J. Niemi: Stable knot-like structures in classical field theory (preprint title: Knots and Particles), Nature 387 (1997) 58–61 [arXiv:hep-th/9610193, doi:10.1038/387058a0] and relation to the dual supercon…