When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a ...

Physicists are exploring whether hidden dimensions and the shape of space could help explain why fundamental particles have ...

ISS microgravity experiments reveal how particles cluster, helping science on Earth and future space missions.

Protons, the positively charged particles that help build every atom in our bodies, are starting to look less like classical ...

Scientists have made a satisfying and intriguing physics discovery some 16 years after it was first predicted to be a possibility: a quasiparticle (a group of particles behaving as one) that only has ...

University of Vermont professor Dennis Clougherty (right) and his student Nam Dinh wondered if there are systems in the atomic scale that behave like the vibrating motion of a guitar string in the ...

Dipangkar Dutta receives funding from US Dept. of Energy and NSF. A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What ...

What is the Stokes-Einstein Equation? The Stokes-Einstein equation is a fundamental relation in physics that describes the diffusion of spherical particles through a fluid with low Reynolds number. It ...