The ultimate purpose of PUNCH is to use its four instruments — three wide-field imagers (WFI) and a near-field imager (NFI) — ...

Chemists are pioneering a clean, electrochemical method to make iron, a key step in decarbonizing the steel industry. Their ...

A graduate student accidentally created a blend of oil, water and nickel particles that formed an unexpected shape.

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Microplastics and much smaller nanoplastics enter the human body in various ways, for example through food or the air we ...

A recent study published by Portland State University discovered a variety of microplastics in 180 out of 182 tested seafood ...

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do ...

Tiny droplets are powering big ideas in science. Researchers have developed a miniature, soft, and flexible lithium-ion ...

A research team has successfully fine-tuned the Rabi oscillation of polaritons, quantum composite particles, by leveraging ...

The collider could also help physicists get to the bottom of antimatter and characteristics of the lightest particles in the universe—millions of times smaller than an electron, 100 trillion of ...

The OFP, funded by the National Science Foundation, regularly collects particles at the depths of ... sediments is also important for ocean chemistry and deep ocean ecosystems as this process ...

That's because plants absorb microplastics in water and soil through their roots, and the majority of these particles become concentrated in this part of the plant with only a tiny amount ...