Cosmic rays are extremely fast, charged particles that travel through space at nearly the speed of light. The Amaterasu ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

The model we have for understanding the universe’s fundamental particles is a bit like a gearbox: one tiny change to any one single particles’ properties throws off the mechanics of the other ...

Tomographic Particle Image Velocimetry (Tomo-PIV) is a 3D particle image velocimetry technology combined with computed tomography (CT), which can realize full-field quantitative measurement of spatial ...

Researchers have started to discover that some of the biggest problems in the world can be addressed by working on some of the smallest scales. In order to perform accurate work on the micrometer and ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

Air pollution ranks among the world's deadliest threats, causing an estimated 8 million deaths in 2021, according to a recent analysis from a United Nations partnership. That same year, pollutants ...