As plastic tumbles against itself, it fragments, and a new study shows those fragments don't stay in the water.

Something invisible holds the universe intact. It outweighs everything you can see—every star, every gas cloud, every ...

There's more bad news about microplastics. We already know they pose a risk to health and can pollute ecosystems, but now ...

While greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane are primary culprits of the climate crisis, a new study has found that ...

A study says the coloring of microplastics can make a big difference in how much they heat up the Earth.

Particles are nature’s smallest constituents, but that doesn’t mean they’re fundamental. So what is the Universe made of?

Optimal microbial sampling approaches for pharmaceutical environments include surface, passive air, and active air monitoring ...

While science has a solid grasp on calculating drag and resistance on microscopic spherical objects, particles like dust, microplastics, and viruses are rarely spherical. A new study re-analyzes a ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The air we breathe every day is much more than a simple mixture of nitrogen and oxygen (and small amounts of other gases). Every day, we inhale ...

In November, scientists arrived at the South Pole in planes outfitted with skis to pull off a construction project seven years in the making. They had a short summer window — November to early ...

Scientists discovered “magic” top quarks at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, demonstrating how the facility has evolved to support quantum computing research. Researchers at ATLAS observed ...