The mysterious origin of lightning was finally uncovered through an ingenious laboratory experiment, revealing the ...

Combinatorial optimization problems are often encountered in real-world applications, including logistics, scheduling and ...

Whether the dust borne on the violent winds of a tornado or the sugar grains in a swirled cup of coffee, the behavior of particles carried along in turbulence is subject to some similarities—all of ...

Our planet is under a constant bombardment of radiation—from space. Well, maybe it’s not as scary as that makes it seem. “Radiation” is a catchall term astronomers use for forms of light—including ...

Physicists just discovered a brand-new particle that appears to be an exotic cousin to the protons and neutrons that make up atoms. Those mundane subatomic particles are made up of even smaller ...

A new particle has popped into existence at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, a heavier proton-like particle that contains two charm quarks. Protons and neutrons are examples of a class of particles ...

This timely Research Topic delves into the dynamics of complex fluid systems, a topic of fundamental importance in science and technology. Complex fluids have been studied for decades in various ...

An AI news app called Particle, from former Twitter engineers, can now keep up with news breaking on podcasts as well as news published on the web. Just ahead of its recent Android release, Particle ...

Understanding collective dynamics is a central goal of active matter research. Recently, topological defects have become key to describing and controlling polar and active nematic systems. In this ...

In July 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe triumphantly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, the long-sought linchpin of the subatomic world. Interacting with Higgs ...