It is this: when many individual entities come together, the result is not merely the sum of their parts. In the language of ...

The particle in question, known as a sterile neutrino, was supposed to only interact with gravity and have zero interactions ...

New research puts forward compelling new evidence that dark matter interacts with cosmic "ghost particles" called neutrinos.

Life on Earth relies upon an astonishingly short list of elements. Carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen compose the essential ...

Chinese scientists have detected plastic particle clouds hovering in the air over two large cities indicating that these ...

Quantum theory and Einstein's theory of general relativity are two of the greatest successes in modern physics. Each works ...

Air pollution is no longer just a lung problem. Doctors warn it can trigger heart attacks even in healthy people by damaging ...

How a rejected paper by Kolkata physicist Satyendra Nath Bose, backed by Albert Einstein, laid the scientific foundation for ...

Tis the season for the common cold—and one of the worst flu seasons— yet most travelers are going maskless at airports and ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.

Inside high-energy proton collisions, quarks and gluons briefly form a dense, boiling state before cooling into ordinary ...

"These findings from a mouse study likely have implications for humans. Men planning to have children should consider ...