The number of people with electrodes in their brains is believed to have more than doubled in the last couple of years. This week, I covered the story of Casey Harrell—a man with ALS who is “the first ...

Every time I write about particle physics, I encounter a moment of uncertainty about a quantity that, at first glance, ought to be clear. How many kinds of elementary particles should I say there are?

Stardust Solutions says its tiny spheres can reflect the sun’s rays without harming people or the environment. Critics say private companies have no business altering Earth’s atmosphere. An enclosed ...

Physicists may have just cracked open a hidden side of the quantum world. For decades, every known particle was thought to belong to one of two categories — bosons or fermions — but researchers have ...

Seemingly empty vacuums are actually teeming with perturbations known as virtual particles that are nearly impossible to detect. Virtual particles vanish quickly, but by smashing protons at ...

A collision inside the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.Brookhaven National Laboratory Scientists at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider have observed particles emerging directly ...

A pair of rare particles produced in high-energy proton collisions may be the clearest evidence yet that mass can emerge from empty space. The finding could shed light on one of the biggest puzzles in ...

In November, scientists arrived at the South Pole in planes outfitted with skis to pull off a construction project seven years in the making. They had a short summer window — November to early ...

to describe (together with p b) both the mechanical balance and the thermodynamic work performed during changes of volume and interfacial area. When the system is not in equilibrium (such as MIPS), ...

Particles as different as soap bubbles and ball bearings can be made to arrange themselves in exactly the same way, according to a new study that could unlock the creation of brand new ...