Using a precisely aligned pair of laser beams, scientists can now hold a single aerosol particle in place and monitor how it charges up. The particle’s glow signals each step in its changing ...

Forget about turtles; for all practical purposes, it’s really particles all the way down. Consider the seemingly simple matter of their size, the very thing that makes them so alien. We’re typically ...

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin's School of Engineering have built a powerful new machine that lets us watch precisely what happens when tiny particles—far smaller than a grain of sand—hit a ...

Want to protect your base with a high-tech laser door in Minecraft? In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a realistic laser security entrance using Redstone, tripwires, and optional command ...

Fundamental particles fall within two camps—fermions or bosons—but a new study suggests that hypothetical paraparticles could exist in a kind of inbetween. Although technically quasiparticles, this ...

The 16-part course, currently in its pilot phase, is catered to high school students but available to anyone interested in learning about the fundamental questions in particle physics. Jeff Wiener ...

Does light behave more like a particle, or like a wave? Today we know the surprising answer. Here's why it took so long to get there. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

I’ve got some bad news for you: Our eyes are not always reliable sources of information. If you’ve ever stepped back from a completed project and wondered why it doesn’t look right, it’s probably ...

Tau Systems, a producer of ultrafast, compact laser-plasma accelerators and secondary radiation sources, has announced a research collaboration with ELI ERIC and the University of Texas (UT) at Austin ...

It’s the rarest particle decay ever discovered. Scientists have clinched the case for a special type of decay of subatomic particles called kaons. Further study of the rare decay could reveal a ...