A team of NASA-sponsored scientists and engineers has developed a novel approach to observing high-energy particles in the ...

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

The famous particle accelerator has gone silent, but its next chapter could usher in a new era of particle physics.

Nanocrystals are already used in millions of devices, including televisions, laptops and displays, and are considered key ...

CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The FerroCheck 2000 Series of portable magnetometers from Spectro Scientific quickly and conveniently measures total ferrous wear particulates in lubricating fluids ...

Scientists using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have opened a new window into the first moments of the universe by studying ...

A subatomic particle called the W boson may be heavier than expected, a surprising finding that might lead to a shake-up of physics' grand model of how the world works on the microscale. When you ...

Seven years ago, a huge magnet was transported over 3,200 miles (5,150km) across land and sea, in the hope of studying a subatomic particle called a muon. Muons are closely related to electrons, which ...