Dark matter, a type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, is predicted to account for most of the matter in ...

The new baryon “Xi-cc-plus” decays into other particles almost instantly, but its existence could be important for ...

Breaking virus-like particles (VLPs) into smaller subunits and then reassembling them afterwards can solve many of the traditional problems with manufacturing them. That’s the message of a talk by an ...

Clay minerals are a major constituent of the earth's surface and are mainly found in the sediments of lakes, rivers and oceans. The properties of clay and claystone crucially depend on how the tiny ...

MIT scientists have designed self-boosting vaccines that release doses over time from a single injection. This breakthrough could make multi-shot vaccines one-and-done, protecting children in even the ...

CMS scientists are analyzing the first dataset gathered through a new tool designed to search for long-lived particles. Since the 1960s, scientists have discovered more than a dozen fundamental ...

The fact that like charges repel and opposites attract is basic electromagnetism. But for decades scientists have occasionally made a counterintuitive, and controversial, observation: similarly ...