Ed Copeland explains the experimental results regarding the news that the electron is a sphere in this video form Periodic Videos and Sixty Symbols. The report should have said that the charge on the electron is extremely spherical. What this means is that the electron does not seem to have a electrical dipole. Some parts of the standard model indicate that the electron should have a small electric dipole. This is important because it would explain why we have such a major asymmetry in between matter and anti-matter in our universe.