A new muon experiment has found a tiny extra wobble in the particles. Machine says physicists are trying to figure out what's causing it. They're looking for signs of lepto quarks, super symmetry or an entire new force. machine: If these particles were discovered, it would be enormous - but we haven't seen anything yet.
Most of the matter in the universe is dark matter, an invisible, untouchable, mysterious substance. Scientists don’t know what exactly dark matter is, despite decades of searching. But recently, they got a new clue in the form of an extremely tiny dancer.
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