We've all heard about plastic pollution in our oceans, but what about the plastic particles quietly building up inside our bodies? A major European research project called PlasticHeal has taken a deep ...

The answer to this question puts a spotlight on two revolutionary 19th-century scientists. In 1828, the Scottish botanist Robert Brown published his observation that tiny particles in suspension were ...

Bloch oscillations are periodic oscillations of quantum particles in a repeating energy "landscape" (e.g., a crystal lattice) ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Some people like company. Others prefer to be alone. The same holds true for the particles that constitute the matter around us: Some, called bosons, like to act in unison with others ...

All forms of electromagnetic radiation, whether they're called waves or rays, are generated by particles in motion. In a radio signal, for example, negatively charged electrons quickly move back and ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Harvard’s canceled solar geoengineering project shows what happens when you try to test controversial climate ...

MCQs on Class 11 Systems of Particles and Rotational Motion: Preparing MCQs has become essential after the introduction new exam pattern for the 2023-24 session. As per the revised assessment scheme, ...

“I did not believe that it was possible to study the Brownian motion with such a precision.” From a letter from Albert Einstein to Jean Perrin (1909). On 30 April 1905, Einstein completed his doctoral ...

Numerical analysis of the effect of thermo- and diffusiophoretic forces on the motion of moderately large (0.01 ≲ Kn ≲ 0.3) combustion-generated (soot) particles and on the formation of soot-shell ...