“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

One of the researchers behind a pioneering new study on bottled water answers PEOPLE's questions about their investigation's unsettling findings Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses ...

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The team began its work with the idea that particles exchange small portions of electric charge when they collide in turbulent air. But instead of spreading out evenly, the charges form irregular ...

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics recognized Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger for their groundbreaking experimental work confirming quantum entanglement, a phenomenon where the state of ...

Gold mixes with seawater from rivers, aeolian dust, and hydrothermal vents. It also binds to particles and settles on the ...

It's become common to read that microplastics—little bits of plastic, smaller than a pencil eraser—are turning up everywhere and in everything, including the ocean, farmland, food and human bodies.

Over millennia, humans have observed and been inspired by beautiful displays of light bands dancing across dark night skies. Today, we call these lights the aurora: the aurora borealis in the northern ...