High-energy cosmic rays, 10 million times more powerful than particles accelerated in Earth's strongest atom smasher, may ...

Physicists may have just cracked open a hidden side of the quantum world. For decades, every known particle was thought to ...

Muons are a key subatomic particle in the discovery of new physics, but after particle collision, they’re difficult to track.

A new study, published in the journal Physical Review Letters, suggests that some of the highest-energy cosmic rays could ...

Human-made microbeads don’t always go with the flow. Under certain conditions, the artificial particles can align themselves with a fluid’s flow and then swim upstream, researchers report May 1 in ...

But such measurements are notoriously challenging: the instruments used are themselves governed by quantum laws, and their interaction with particles can alter the very properties they are meant to ...

For decades, scientists have explored the enigmatic world of fundamental particles, uncovering the building blocks of our universe. But what if some of these particles, once deemed impossible, ...

Neutrinos are so tiny, so nearly massless, that they’re very difficult to isolate. But we know for sure that they’re produced ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth has shut down another instrument in the hopes of buying time for an upgrade that could boost the aging probe’s impressive lifespan.

A new study found that moderate temperature increases on glass surfaces broke down SARS-CoV-2 virus-like particles structure, while humidity had very little impact. The findings suggest that as ...

A clean home often looks like polished surfaces and organized shelves. True health happens at a microscopic level where air ...