Hints of weird particles from space may defy physicists’ standard model

Two unusual signals were picked up by a detector suspended from a balloon above Antarctica

ANITA experiment

GOING UP  The ANITA experiment (foreground, right) floated above Antarctica on a helium balloon (center). It has detected two odd particles seemingly traveling upward through the Earth.

NASA

Dangling from a balloon high above Antarctica, a particle detector has spotted something that standard physics is at a loss to explain.