Just 10 viral particles of the H5N1 bird flu that caused hundreds of influenza outbreaks in U.S. dairy cattle can cause ...

How many kinds of elementary particles should I say there are? In experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, physicists smash ...

Microplastics are tiny plastic particles that have infiltrated our environment and found their way into our food supply.

Particles worn from tires are estimated to make up nearly half of the microplastics found in terrestrial and aquatic systems.

A University of Melbourne researcher has placed the strongest constraints yet on certain rare decays of subatomic particles, ...

Researchers from Tampere University and the University of Helsinki have identified an unexpected chemical process that may influence the formation of air pollution particles in urban environments. The ...

Nanorobotic swarming concentrates photothermal particles into heat-retaining clusters, helping the same material outperform ...

Micro- and nanoplastics are now popping up everywhere: in seawater, snow, food and even in our bodies. The very smallest ...

The mysterious Amaterasu particle may not be a proton at all. New research suggests that some of the most extreme cosmic rays ...

Going to smaller and smaller distance scales reveals more fundamental views of nature, which means if we can understand and describe the smallest scales, we can build our way to an understanding of ...

Scientists have found that staple-shaped particles can tangle together to create a material that is both strong and flexible.

Empty space, despite how we think of it, may not be as empty as we assume. Although we cannot detect the virtual particles present in empty space, their presence is necessary to predict, ...