Searches for dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative with their ideas.

A UC San Diego-led science team and a particle analyzer named “Shirley” are behind the first detection ever of biological particles — pieces of bacteria, fungi, and plants — in cold ice clouds.

Fiddler crabs in Colombian mangroves swallow microplastics, concentrate them, and break them into smaller fragments during ...

Crawling along the world’s river bottoms, the larvae of the caddis fly suffer a perpetual housing crisis. To protect themselves from predators, they gather up sand grains and other sediment and paste ...

Pieces of a graphene lattice made from patchy particles. Because the particles can be followed one-by-one, defects can be studied at the particle scale. Image: Swinkels et al. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

A new study found people are consuming a quarter million of tiny invisible pieces of plastic with every litre of bottled water – 10-100 times more than previously estimated. One litre of water in a ...

Every main meal you eat could contain, on average, more than 100 tiny plastic particles—known as microplastics—according to a new study conducted by Scotland-based Heriot-Watt University. The ...

At this point, it’s common knowledge that bottled water contains microplastics — fragments of the insidious material that can be as small as a bacterial cell. But the problem is much worse than ...