Real particles are lumps of energy that can be "seen" or detected by appropriate instruments; this feature is what makes them ...

Virtual particles exploit the natural fuzziness of the subatomic world, where if these ephemeral particles live briefly enough, they can also briefly borrow their energy from empty space. The haziness ...

(THE CONVERSATION) 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 ...

Very early on in our universe, when it was a seething hot cauldron of energy, particles made of matter and antimatter bubbled ...

As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...

Caltech researchers co-lead new study refining what we know about the ghostly particlesVery early on in our universe, when it ...

I’m lucky to learn firsthand about some of the world’s most cutting-edge technologies. I’ve seen artificial intelligence ace an AP biology test, long before AI became an everyday tool. I’ve seen ...

Very early on in our universe, when it was a seething hot cauldron of energy, particles made of matter and antimatter bubbled into existence in equal ...

At absolute zero, subatomic particles cease to vibrate entirely and are completely ... This crucially helps reject background noise and allows researchers to determine the origin of a signal, ...

Nanoplastics are an insidious threat, even sneaking into the human body. But researchers have developed a test strip that ...

The science is unsettled, but researchers say there is cause for concern. Tiny plastic particles like these—called microplastics—are added to some exfoliating skincare gels and can get into the ...