A team of Brown University researchers has shown a new method of probing the properties of anyons, strange quasiparticles that could be useful in future quantum computers. In research published in the ...

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

In 1974, Stephen Hawking proposed that black holes could evaporate. But do we understand how this might happen? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

A new type of sensor that levitates dozens of glass microparticles could revolutionize the accuracy and efficiency of sensing ...

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.

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Roughly 430,000 years ago, an incandescent ball of hot gas came barreling out of the sky and slammed into Antarctica — and now, scientists have found tiny bits of debris formed by that impact. The ...