It's the 18th hole and the game's on the line. You line up your putt, take a breath, and roll the ball toward the hole. The ...

In 2015, physics is standing on a bridge between the old world and the new. The good ol’ Standard Model, a set of equations that explains much, but lucky for us not *all*, of the physical workings of ...

What’s inside an atom? It’s not a trivia question. Physicists in the early 20th century knew that atoms contained component parts — electrons and a nucleus with protons and neutrons within. But nobody ...

The only property of an electron in free space that can be calculated directly from first principles is its magnetic moment. Now an important step has been taken towards determining the magnetic ...

Zoltan Fodor receives funding from DFG, BMBF. When the results of an experiment don’t match predictions made by the best theory of the day, something is off. Fifteen years ago, physicists at ...

After a two-decade wait that included a long struggle for funding and a move halfway across a continent, a rebooted experiment on the muon—a particle similar to the electron but heavier and ...

In the lab: physicist Jairo Velasco Jr (left) and graduate student Zhehao Ge. Behind them is the scanning tunnelling microscope that they use to create and study graphene quantum dots. (Courtesy: ...