Worse, these contaminated particles pose a double risk, researchers said – first when they are airborne, and again when they ...
Scientists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider may be seeing the strongest hints yet of physics beyond the Standard Model — the decades-old theory that explains the fundamental particles and ...
Somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 trillion bacteria live in the human gut, and they do not keep to themselves. As they ...
In less than a millionth of a second after a nuclear detonation or a severe nuclear reactor accident, an enormous burst of ...
Scientists have discovered that ultraheavy atomic nuclei could explain some of the highest-energy cosmic rays ever observed.
A study reveals that wear of tires releases microplastics that are already part of the air pollution affecting people in ...
Penn scientists may have found a way to power future AI with exotic light-matter particles instead of electrons.
Stardust Solutions says its tiny spheres can reflect the sun’s rays without harming people or the environment. Critics say ...
Muons are a key subatomic particle in the discovery of new physics, but after particle collision, they’re difficult to track.
Eighty years ago, Penn researchers J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly launched the age of electronic computing by harnessing ...
Quantum field theory says true nothingness doesn’t exist; even a vacuum teems with energy fields that help create matter and ...