Quarks are the reason protons have a positive charge. Each quark has a fraction of an electric charge. A proton has two up ...

In just the first 259 days of data collection, KATRIN, a beta-decay-based detector in Germany, has set the smallest upper ...

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a ...

The decades-long struggle to find a permanent place to dispose of nuclear waste will continue, probably for many years to ...

Neutrinos are among the most enigmatic particles in the universe. They are omnipresent yet interact extremely rarely with ...

In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists has captured the first live images. In a groundbreaking study, researchers ...

A common mineral, α-alumina, found abundantly in Earth's crust, may have played a critical role in initiating the chemical ...

Quantum superposition is a phenomenon in which a tiny particle can be in two states at the same time — but only if it is not ...