Experimental physics

Surprising oil drop experiments suggest that the quantum world may not be as strange as advertised.

Physicists have completed a new round of searches for the answer to why matter dominates over antimatter. But the radioactive decay that would solve the puzzle is evading them.

Whispers of the elusive particles are becoming stronger with a series of signals that appear to be zeroing in on a leading contender.

A radical theory predicting the existence of “time crystals” — perpetual motion objects that break the symmetry of time — is being put to the test.