Publishing in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, researchers at Kyushu University report that they have ...

An environmental crisis is unfolding in Lake Erie, where plastic pollution has increased dramatically over the past decade despite widespread conservation efforts – a paradox that left Today in Ohio ...

For nearly a century, scientists have understood how crystalline materials—such as metals and semiconductors—bend without ...

People infected with HIV must take antiretroviral drugs for life. But engineered antibodies appeared to suppress the virus ...

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, ...

If you’re superstitious, a black cat in your path is bad luck, even if you keep your distance. Likewise, in quantum physics, particles can feel the influence of magnetic fields that they never come ...

Breaking the rules is exciting, especially if they have held for a long time. This is true not just in life but also in particle physics. Here the rule I'm thinking of is called “lepton flavor ...

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

We can't see dark matter directly, so studying it pushes the boundaries of our creativity as scientists. How exciting, says ...

Dark matter is one of the great enigmas of the universe and, in efforts to determine its existence and nature, a new study ...