Using lasers as tweezers to understand cloud electrification might sound like science fiction, but at the Institute of ...

Using a precisely aligned pair of laser beams, scientists can now hold a single aerosol particle in place and monitor how it ...

Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most ...

Last year, the most violent geomagnetic storm to strike Earth in over two decades did more than disrupt GPS systems and ...

What was once the leading explanation for dark matter may have simply been underestimating the mass of the particles that ...

An effect first observed decades ago by Nobel laureate Arthur Ashkin has been used to fine tune the electrical charge on ...

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

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

BEIJING: China is on track to unlock the mysteries behind a particle that is everywhere on earth yet extremely hard to detect ...

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 ...