Household gadgets have a way of sounding scarier than they are once someone attaches a giant number to them. The claim that a ...

Human-made microbeads don’t always go with the flow. Under certain conditions, the artificial particles can align themselves with a fluid’s flow and then swim upstream, researchers report May 1 in ...

Reactors designed to produce energy from the fusion of atoms could have an unexpected scientific side benefit.

But such measurements are notoriously challenging: the instruments used are themselves governed by quantum laws, and their interaction with particles can alter the very properties they are meant to ...

Scientists have managed to observe solar neutrinos carrying out a rare atomic transformation deep underground, converting carbon-13 into nitrogen-13 inside the SNO+ detector. By tracking two faint ...

Sometimes, particles can pass through walls. Though it sounds like science fiction, the phenomenon is well documented and even understood under the bizarre rules that govern the microscopic world ...

The largest particle detector of its kind has failed to turn up any hints of dark matter, despite searching for about a year. Known as XENON1T, the experiment is designed to detect elusive dark matter ...

About 1.2 miles beneath Antarctica, an underground observatory is hunting for "ghost particles." What it finds could reveal the unseen heart of a distant galaxy. Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. At the subatomic level, particles can fly through seemingly impassable barriers like ghosts. For ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. If you pump more and more energy into a massive particle, it moves ...