The LHC’s best 2025 discovery points the way to new physics

One of the biggest unanswered questions in all of theoretical physics is how the Universe came to have more matter than antimatter in it. 
In laboratory experiments, we can only create or destroy matter if we also create or destroy an equivalent amount of antimatter. But at some point in the Universe’s past, it must have happened. 
Although it flew under most people’s radar, a set of 2025 discoveries from the LHCb collaboration brought us a step closer to the solution than ever before.