Given that everything in the universe reduces to particles, a question presents itself: What are particles? The easy answer quickly shows itself to be unsatisfying. Namely, electrons, photons, quarks ...

If everything in nature is made of quantum fields at its core, how do we wind up with particles at all?

Rutgers scientist Phoebe Stapleton answers PEOPLE's questions about a pioneering new study on nano-sized plastic particles discovered in bottled water.

Physicists speak of the world as being made of particles and force fields, but it is not at all clear what particles and force fields actually are in the quantum realm. The world may instead ...

The particles are so tiny that the task of making them collide is like firing two needles 10 kilometres (6 miles) at each other with the precision to make them collide.

What is "time" for quantum particles? Publication by TU Darmstadt researchers in renowned journal "Science Advances" In an amazing phenomenon of quantum physics known as ...

A 2-layer, homemade face mask shows how particles escape when the wearer coughs at times of 0.2s, 0.47s, and 1.68s after the cough's initiation. This particular mask reduced the maximum average ...

Household dust is a rather horrifying cocktail of organic and inorganic particles that most people would rather not think about. That cocktail commonly includes dead skin cells from humans and ...

The tiny particles of various sizes from new and old car and truck tires did not turn out to be neutral surfaces on which bacteria colonize. Rather, they altered the composition of the biofilms—the ...

For many who live and work around the San Pedro Creek in downtown San Antonio, there has been a light, intermittent flurry of white particles falling through the air in recent days. Mike Pacheco is ...