(CNN) — A series of powerful storms in the Pacific Ocean are driving towering waves into the California coastline, triggering flooding and posing a significant risk to people and structures along the ...

The magnetic moment of the muon—a tiny property of a tiny particle—has long puzzled physicists. Experiments and theory haven’t quite matched up, leaving open the thrilling possibility of discovering ...

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Ordinarily, light waves pass through each other without any trouble. But when quantum mechanics is involved, something strange happens: photons can interact through the creation of virtual particles ...