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Physicists have been intrigued by χc1(3872), also known as X(3872), since its discovery two decades ago. They have been exploring whether it is a conventional charmonium…
Tachyon They are hypothetical particles that always travel faster than light. Until recently, they were commonly thought to be entities that did not fit into the…
electronic: Negatively charged particles. Typically found orbiting the outer region of the atom. Also serves as a carrier of electricity in solids.fabric: A flexible material that…
Tiny robots may offer a way to clean up plastic pollution in water dottedhippo/Getty Images A small magnetic robot can help remove some of the tiniest…
Beautiful and surprisingly complex patterns created by “mathematical billiards”Albers et al. PRL 2024 In the mathematical version of billiards, particles that avoid following paths become trapped…
antenna: (plural: antennae or antennae) In biology, an antenna refers to any of a pair of long, thin sensory appendages on the head of insects, crustaceans,…
Crowds gather at the San FermÃn festival in Pamplona during the famous running of the bullsMiguel/Shutterstock People in very dense crowds move in small circular “trajectories”…
New technology allows water droplets to be guided precisely around obstacle courses to trigger chemical reactions Jonathan Knowles/Getty Images By placing tiny magnetic particles inside ordinary…
Scientists have faced a challenge for nearly a century: How do you detect the undetectable, like the elusive neutrino? But now, in a groundbreaking discovery, neutrinos…
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has had a profound impact on humanity. Prevention of infection by disinfecting surfaces and aerosols using non-chemical methods is highly…
The average bottle of water contains nearly 250,000 tiny, invisible particles of nanoplastic that were detected and classified for the first time using a dual-laser microscope.…
Scientists used lasers to identify plastic particles in water bottles Naixin Qian, Columbia University One liter water bottle can contain 240,000 microscopic plastic particles. The health…
Astronomers have detected a rare and extremely energetic particle falling to Earth. Scientists say the ray, named after the Japanese sun goddess Amaterasu, is one of…
