A cosmic ray from a faraway supernova explosion may have sent a packed passenger jet into free fall in late October, forcing ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Neutrinos – you may have heard of them referred to as "ghost particles" – pass through everything because they are extremely ...

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

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.

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