Neutrinos, often called “ghost particles”, are among the most elusive particles in the universe, passing through matter with little interaction. The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics has brought renewed ...

Climate models may underestimate tiny marine aerosol particles that help clouds form, potentially affecting estimates of ...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these particles within atoms would stay unexplained ...

Francis Halzen, who was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics, found a new way to study neutrinos — by turning a block of ...

In a twist on conventional wisdom, researchers have discovered that in ocean-like fluids with changing density, tiny porous particles can sink faster than larger ones, thanks to how they absorb salt.

What if particles don't slow down in a crowd, but move faster? Physicists from Leiden worked together and discovered a new state of matter, where particles pass on energy through collisions and create ...

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 ...

The hot particles thrown out of the Chernobyl plant fall into three general categories. The first is fuel that remains ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. Illustration of Earth’s bow shock and ...

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 study of six Chernobyl particles found their nuclear fuel structures largely intact after 40 years, shedding light on ...

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 ...