Bacteria riding on sinking ocean particles can erode the mineral ballast that helps those particles descend, slowing the ...

Plastic particles can enter tea in several different ways - and teabags may play a bigger role than many people realize.

NYU researchers have found a way to use light to control how microscopic particles assemble into crystals, effectively ...

Precursors of the molecules needed for the origin of life may have been generated by chemical reactions promoted by iron-rich particles from meteors or volcanic eruptions on Earth approximately 4.4 ...

The magnum opus of particle physics is far from complete, requiring physicists to devise many alternatives—some weirder than ...

STOCKHOLM — Three U.S.-based scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their work on quantum dots — particles just a few atoms in diameter that can release very bright colored light ...

Physicists are eyeing charged gravitinos—ultra-heavy, stable particles from supergravity theory—as possible Dark Matter candidates. Unlike axions or WIMPs, these particles carry electric charge but ...