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Albert Maguire '82 and Emeritus Professor David Gross won marquee Breakthrough Prizes for outstanding scientific discovery, ...

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Physicists have spent the last 20 years pondering an apparent discrepancy between experimental results and theoretical ...

A tiny discrepancy in particle physics has loomed for decades as an exciting possible crack in one of science’s most successful theories, hinting at unknown forces or quantum objects. Now, an ...