'Intriguing anomalies' could rewrite the rules of physics

A new finding could shake the very foundations of our understanding of particle physics, and the universe. A review of three separate experiments, including one conducted at the Large Hadron Collider, has turned up'remarkably similar' results. The studies suggest that lepton universality - a fundamental assumption of the standard model - does not hold up. Instead, they point to the existence of a new phenomenon that exists outside of the standard model of particle physics. Earlier this year, researchers with Cern's LHCb experiment (pictured) found'intriguing anomalies', a discovery that has now been used as one of the three pieces of research included in a new Nature review.