One of the researchers behind a pioneering new study on bottled water answers PEOPLE's questions about their investigation's unsettling findings Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses ...

Cosmic rays are particles from outer space that travel across the universe. They can be made by the sun, by other stars exploding, and even black holes. They move extremely fast, nearly the speed of ...

Alpha particles are also known as alpha radiation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Alongside beta particles, gamma rays, and ...

Every second, without you knowing it, thousands of billions of invisible particles pass through your body. These cosmic objects travel across the Universe from distant sources, moving at ...

Physicist Richard Feynman invented them to describe the interactions between real particles. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space ...

Empty space, despite how we think of it, may not be as empty as we assume. Although we cannot detect the virtual particles present in empty space, their presence is necessary to predict, ...

Photons carry the electromagnetic force, and act as both particles and waves. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Photons are ...

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 ...

Forget about turtles; for all practical purposes, it’s really particles all the way down. Consider the seemingly simple matter of their size, the very thing that makes them so alien. We’re typically ...