A year ago, researchers made a splash with a wildly creative idea for building a laser from notoriously elusive particles, ...

Physicists have spent six decades believing that high-energy particles trapped around Earth spread out through random ...

A search for one mysterious particle unexpectedly revealed evidence for two different structures that may belong to the ...

More than a kilometer underground, in what used to be a gold mine, inside a tank filled with tons of liquid xenon, “something” struck the nucleus of an atom. The tiny collision left an unusual energy ...

New findings by a team of researchers from the US and Australia have complicated an ongoing debate over whether a total joint ...

Dark matter is an elusive, untouchable substance that binds galaxies together. A shadowy signal could signify the first time a particle has ever been detected.

This idea may help address the black hole information paradox, especially the problem that black holes seem to violate a key ...

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A programmable microfluidic device developed at the Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan, combines deterministic lateral ...

Researchers warn that single-use takeaway cups release millions of microplastic and even smaller 'nanoplastic' particles when ...

It is commonly assumed that tiny particles just go with the flow as they make their way through soil, biological tissue, and other complex materials. But a team of Yale researchers led by Professor ...