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

A joint effort between two of the world’s largest neutrino experiments has brought scientists closer to understanding how the universe survived its violent beginnings. The findings could reveal why ...

Sebastian Mizera just joined the physics department as an assistant professor, researching quantum field theory.

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Although its existence had been theorized for decades, the Higgs boson was finally observed to exist in 2012 at the Large ...

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory in China has successfully completed its first proof-of-concept experiment.

Diesel exhaust particles can disturb the function of human brain immune cells, known as microglia, according to a recent ...

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 ...

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

Mechanical sweepers function using rotating brushes that sweep dust and debris from the road surface. A water-sprinkling ...

There are microplastics in your food and you don't know it. Here's what you can do about it right now.