What if the Higgs boson found in 2012 is not alone but is the only sibling we have encountered so far? Scientists at CERN ...

Debates over the presence of microplastics in the human body highlight the challenge of studying something simultaneously invisible to the naked eye and abundant.

Cosmic rays are made primarily of protons with a few electrons sprinkled in, and they can reach energies even higher than ...

Tiny solid particles—like pollutants, cloud droplets and medicine powders—form highly concentrated clusters in turbulent environments like smokestacks, clouds and pharmaceutical mixers. What causes ...

Small particles from tires inhibited the growth and caused adverse behavioral changes in organisms found in freshwater and coastal estuary ecosystems, two new research papers found. Small particles ...

Around the world, some 1.5 billion tires are produced each year, and tire-wear particles are increasingly recognized as one of the largest sources of microplastic pollution.

A new particle detector called PLATON could replace millions of tiny detector components with a single block of ...

While science has a solid grasp on calculating drag and resistance on microscopic spherical objects, particles like dust, microplastics, and viruses are rarely spherical. A new study re-analyzes a ...

A fluid array of micro‑oscillators can tackle forecasting and stealth anomaly detection with surprising finesse.

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

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 ...