If you look up at the sky on a clear day, chances are you'll notice thin, white clouds—also known as contrails—following ...

Sebastian Mizera just joined the physics department as an assistant professor, researching quantum field theory.

A new theory for the origins of dark matter suggests that fast-moving, neutrino-like dark particles could have decoupled from ...

Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of ...

Scientists have developed tiny metal-oxide particles that push cancer cells past their stress limits while sparing healthy ...

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

The fact that like charges repel and opposites attract is basic electromagnetism. But for decades scientists have occasionally made a counterintuitive, and controversial, observation: similarly ...

Diesel exhaust particles can disturb the function of human brain immune cells, known as microglia, according to a recent ...

When we think of wealth, gold is what comes to mind. After all, it is the universal symbol of money. However, recent research ...

An average cup of tea made by boiling water in a plastic kettle contains nearly 3 billion plastic nanoparticles, according to ...

There are microplastics in your food and you don't know it. Here's what you can do about it right now.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a recall for over 1 million bags of shredded cheese due to the possible ...