Scientists have chilled SuperCDMS detectors to near absolute zero in order to find dark matter that makes up 85 percent of ...

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NASA-funded scientists are looking at microscopic ice particles inside hurricanes to determine if they contribute to the storm’s strengthening or weakening. Researchers have discovered that greater ...

Physicists have long struggled to unite quantum mechanics—the theory governing tiny particles—with Einstein’s theory of ...

Tiny solid particles — like pollutants, cloud droplets and medicine powders — form highly concentrated clusters in turbulent environments like smokestacks, clouds and pharmaceutical mixers. What ...

In a twist on conventional wisdom, researchers have discovered that in ocean-like fluids with changing density, tiny porous particles can sink faster than larger ones, thanks to how they absorb salt.

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In nanoscale particle research, precise control and separation have long been a bottleneck in biotechnology. Researchers at the University of Oulu have now developed a new method that improves ...