In one study, these particles from high-altitude wildfire smoke created a dramatic cooling effect not accounted for in ...

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere may be preserved in the Moon's soil, offering a long-term record of Earth’s atmospheric ...

Learn how nitrogen and helium end up in lunar soil, and why this helps us understand planetary habitability.

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A joint effort between two of the world’s largest neutrino experiments has brought scientists closer to understanding how the ...

Thousands of meters underground, in the chthonic depths of Earth's crust, scientists have at long last caught solar neutrinos ...

Every second, without you knowing it, thousands of billions of invisible particles pass through your body. These cosmic objects travel across the Universe from distant sources, moving at ...

A collaboration between the University of Konstanz and Forschungszentrum Jülich has achieved the first fully tunable ...

Children may be particularly vulnerable to the emission of ultrafine particles of heavy metal in the home, the researchers ...

A sensor can watch hundreds of tiny particles at the same time. It could make cars, navigation, and even dark matter ...

Going to smaller and smaller distance scales reveals more fundamental views of nature, which means if we can understand and describe the smallest scales, we can build our way to an understanding of ...