The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory in China has successfully completed its first proof-of-concept experiment.

Using a precisely aligned pair of laser beams, scientists can now hold a single aerosol particle in place and monitor how it ...

Using lasers as tweezers to understand cloud electrification might sound like science fiction, but at the Institute of ...

Lightning is one of the most familiar spectacles in the sky, yet the exact spark that starts a bolt has remained stubbornly out of reach. Now a physicist has managed to trap a microscopic particle and ...

More than 100 years after its existence was predicted, scientists report that they have, for the first time, seen dark matter ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

What was once the leading explanation for dark matter may have simply been underestimating the mass of the particles that ...

Florida State University oceanographers have discovered a significant connection between small-scale microbial processes and ...

Hakeem Oluseyi, host of NOVA and GBH's podcast Particles of Thought, breaks down how his show tackles some of science's biggest and strangest questions.

Small particles from tires inhibited the growth and caused adverse behavioral changes in organisms found in freshwater and coastal estuary ecosystems, two new research papers found. Small particles ...

China is on track to unlock the mysteries behind a particle that is everywhere on earth yet extremely hard to detect, with ...