Your kitchen sponge, a silent workhorse, harbors billions of bacteria, making it dirtier than toilets. Its porous nature, ...

To probe the "knee" more precisely, scientists need to measure the energy spectra of individual types of cosmic rays, such as protons, helium and heavier nuclei. But cosmic rays in this energy range ...

Chris Neu studies dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider, bringing big ideas to his classroom and students into his lab.

Global plastic production exceeds hundreds of millions of tons annually, with a significant fraction fragmenting into ...

Cosmic rays, high-energy particles that travel through space, have puzzled scientists for decades. One particular feature of ...

A new analysis of old Cassini data has also verified past detections of complex organics in Saturn’s E ring, strengthening ...

Plastic and microplastic pollution has become a defining environmental concern of our time; headlines warn that these ...

The gene editing tool known as CRISPR-Cas9 is changing what’s possible for treating a wide range of diseases caused by ...

LHAASO has uncovered that micro-quasars, black holes feeding on companion stars, are powerful PeV particle accelerators.

Milestone results released by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) on November 16 have solved a ...

When we think creatively, produce novel ideas, or otherwise have “Eureka” moments, we may actually unlock access to a ...

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science ...