Particle physics is a curious discipline. Its key theory, the Standard Model – our best understanding of how the basic building blocks of matter are governed by three of the four fundamental forces – ...

Earth’s magnetic field protects the planet from space weather like cosmic radiation and charged particles from the Sun. The ...

The South Atlantic Anomaly, or SAA, has been known since at least the 1960s, but there were no detailed, continuous studies ...

New scientific results confirm an anomaly seen in previous experiments, which may point to an as-yet-unconfirmed new elementary particle, the sterile neutrino, or indicate the need for a new ...

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is designed to probe the fringes of known physics, and now the facility has found particles not behaving as predicted. While it’s still early days, the discovery ...

A new calculation clarifies the complicated relationship between protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus and offers a fascinating resolution of the famous NuTeV Anomaly. A new calculation clarifies ...

The European Space Agency is considering a unique experiment that could explain strange gravitational phenomena in the outer solar system Since 1998 astronomers have known that the space probes ...

A weak zone in Earth’s magnetic field, known as the South Atlantic Anomaly, has expanded at an alarming rate over the past ...

The South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) is a particularly weak region of Earth’s magnetic field that can cause satellites to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency's Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have ...