Particles

Ghost particles slip through Earth and spark a hidden atomic reaction

Neutrinos are among the most puzzling particles known to science and are often called 'ghost particles' because they so rarely…

3 months ago

Heavy particles, big secrets: What happened right after the Big Bang

An international team of scientists has published a new report that moves towards a better understanding of the behaviour of…

9 months ago

Rapid simulations of toxic particles could aid air pollution fight

A pioneering method to simulate how microscopic particles move through the air could boost efforts to combat air pollution, a…

9 months ago

How do the universe’s highest-energy particles originate? Magnetic outflows stemming from star mergers, analysis concludes

Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays are the highest-energy particles in the universe, whose energies are more than a million times what…

1 year ago

Physicists discover a quantum state with a new type of emergent particles: Six-flux composite fermions

If the fractional quantum Hall regime were a series of highways, these highways would have either two or four lanes.…

2 years ago

Wobbling particles in the sky

Tiny particles such as ice crystals or ash particles tend to oscillate as they settle through the atmosphere. In their…

2 years ago

ISRO’s Aditya L1 Solar Mission Begins Studying Solar Wind, Collects Data on Energetic Particles

After India's solar mission, Aditya L1 began its journey towards Lagrange point 1 following a key manoeuvre, it has started studying…

2 years ago