What kind of weeklong tech event features a show-and-tell about a hypersonic jet blaster as well as a karaoke night? Seattle ...

We've all heard about plastic pollution in our oceans, but what about the plastic particles quietly building up inside our bodies? A major European research project called PlasticHeal has taken a deep ...

The answer to this question puts a spotlight on two revolutionary 19th-century scientists. In 1828, the Scottish botanist Robert Brown published his observation that tiny particles in suspension were ...

Bloch oscillations are periodic oscillations of quantum particles in a repeating energy "landscape" (e.g., a crystal lattice) ...

Observing light in motion is now possible thanks to an impressive breakthrough by researchers at the University of Toronto. They have developed a technology capable of capturing and simulating the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Harvard’s canceled solar geoengineering project shows what happens when you try to test controversial climate ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Some people like company. Others prefer to be alone. The same holds true for the particles that constitute the matter around us: Some, called bosons, like to act in unison with others ...

All forms of electromagnetic radiation, whether they're called waves or rays, are generated by particles in motion. In a radio signal, for example, negatively charged electrons quickly move back and ...