Using lasers as tweezers to understand cloud electrification might sound like science fiction, but at the Institute of ...

Using a precisely aligned pair of laser beams, scientists can now hold a single aerosol particle in place and monitor how it ...

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory in China has successfully completed its first proof-of-concept experiment.

Every second, without you knowing it, thousands of billions of invisible particles pass through your body. These cosmic ...

A single green laser, a glass bead smaller than a bacterium and a lab in Austria are helping you see lightning in a new way.

Transmission electron micrograph of SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland.

What was once the leading explanation for dark matter may have simply been underestimating the mass of the particles that ...

The elusive particle that physicists knew had to to exist, but took half a century to find. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

Physicists have found evidence of X particles in the quark-gluon plasma produced in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, based near Geneva, ...

O nce upon a time, cholesterol was simple. This molecule, it was proclaimed, came in two varieties: an artery-clogging “bad” ...