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Physicists have crafted a molecular tuning fork that picks up a minuscule asymmetry in the electron's shape — a potential key to the puzzle of why matter exists.
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The electron may not be a flawless sphere but slightly lopsided. That tiny warp could reveal why the universe has matter at all. Scientists built a molecular gadget to catch this distortion.
🎯 The asymmetry being chased is so small that if the electron were the size of Earth, its effect on the radius would be thinner than a spider's web.