At the end of the 1600s, Newton proposed the universal law of gravitation: that every particle attracts every other particle ...

Lightning is one of the most familiar spectacles in the sky, yet the exact spark that starts a bolt has remained stubbornly out of reach. Now a physicist has managed to trap a microscopic particle and ...

Physicists have now demonstrated a particle accelerator so small it fits inside a single molecule, shrinking one of science’s ...

Lightning lights up the sky in a dramatic flash, but scientists still don’t fully understand how it starts. Now, researchers ...

With the help of carbon nanotubes and laser light, this machine can create immensely powerful X-rays on a microchip, ...

A method tracks the motion of nucleolar layers to determine the viscoelastic properties of a membraneless organelle.

Using lasers as tweezers to understand cloud electrification might sound like science fiction, but at the Institute of ...

Aerosols are tiny particles of liquid or solid material that drift through the air and are constantly present in our surroundings. Some are big enough to spot, like spring pollen, while others, ...

In an unexpected twist on particle physics, MIT researchers have successfully turned a single molecule into a particle ...

The atypical structure of the radium monofluoride molecule allows physicists to search for answers to some of the universe’s ...

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