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.

The impacts of science from HFIR include the development of medical isotopes and elements for the periodic table, fuels and ...

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

Will the pole shift actually happen? Discover more about Earth’s magnetic poles and how they’ve shifted in the past.

Researchers Kohki Horie, Keiichiro Toda, Takuma Nakamura, and Takuro Ideguchi of the University of Tokyo have built a ...

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

A new dual-light microscope lets researchers observe micro- and nanoscale activity inside living cells without using dyes.

Microscopic magnetic fossils found in North Atlantic seafloor sediments may represent components of an internal "GPS system" ...

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

In poultry houses where broiler chickens — birds bred and raised specifically for meat production — are grown, feed is ...

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