Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

A wobbling jet from a giant, voracious black hole is suppressing star formation in a distant galaxy—and astronomers have ...

The subatomic particles are incredibly numerous. About 1,000 neutrinos from stars other than the sun pass through a thumbnail every second.

Researchers at TU Wien have discovered a quantum system where energy and mass move with perfect efficiency. In an ultracold ...

Quantum particles have a social life, of a sort. They interact and form relationships with each other, and one of the most ...

Physicists have built a quantum gas that behaves nothing like the substances we are used to, and that is exactly why it is ...

Researchers at TU Wien have developed a one-dimensional “quantum wire” using a gas of ultracold atoms. In this system, both ...

Small household appliances with electric heating coils and brushed DC motors—such as hairdryers, toasters and air fryers—are significant sources of ultrafine particles (UFP) that may pose health risks ...

Physicist Richard Feynman invented them to describe the interactions between real particles. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This ...

Dipangkar Dutta receives funding from US Dept. of Energy and NSF. A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What ...

"You never see the Quark Gluon Plasma itself — you just see its ashes." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new particle detector ...

A new video podcast from GBH and the producers of NOVA, hosted by Hakeem Oluseyi. Should we bring back extinct species? Are we missing a fundamental law of nature? What can ancient fossils tell us ...