Our new study set out to understand what happens to large pieces of floating plastic once they enter the ocean. We developed ...

As far as particles of light are concerned, the collective is more important than the individual. When they get to decide ...

Real particles are lumps of energy that can be "seen" or detected by appropriate instruments; this feature is what makes them ...

The training scenario’s planners didn’t hold back during their runthrough. According to the ESA, the workshop centered on a ...

Below the waves of the Mediterranean, Europe's KM3NeT neutrino telescope is on a cosmic hunt. Towering strings of sensors ...

This balance—neurons as the silent bee workers, waves as the queen’s rhythm holding the hive together—suggests consciousness ...

Virtual particles exploit the natural fuzziness of the subatomic world, where if these ephemeral particles live briefly enough, they can also briefly borrow their energy from empty space. The haziness ...

For decades, astrophysicists have puzzled over why the sun’s corona—its outermost atmosphere—burns at millions of degrees ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

A new theoretical study led by University of Delaware engineers reveals that magnons, a type of magnetic spin wave, can ...

These types of changes are "going to affect us, because we rely on the ocean for our air, our food, our climate regulation.” ...