The burgeoning space industry and the technologies society increasingly relies on—electric grids, aviation and ...

Clouds play an important role in regulating the climate. Bright ones at low altitudes generally reflect solar energy away, ...

Quick facts about particle physics. Number of known elementary particles: 61 The particles that are in an atom: protons, neutrons and electrons The particles that are in protons and neutrons ...

Plastic waste pollutes oceans across all regions of the world. Marine animals may become entangled in larger plastic debris ...

There is growing awareness — and alarm — at news that human brains (and the rest of our bodies) contain microplastic ...

Rice is also a hot spot for microplastics. A University of Queensland study found that for every half cup of rice, there are ...

The particles that don’t have mass are always traveling at the speed of light, and they also all carry an intrinsic angular momentum as though they’re spinning like a top.

A startup called Gigablue claims to have reached a milestone by selling 200,000 carbon credits for its ocean-based carbon ...