Tag Archives: particles
NASA hopes OSIRIS-REx data will explain an asteroid’s mini-eruptions
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made a startling discovery shortly after arriving at its target, a 1614-foot-wide rock called Bennu: the asteroid was ejecting particles from its surface. While that's common behavior on icy comets, it's much rarer on ast...
Americans consume an alarming amount of microplastics
Americans consume tens of thousands of microplastic particles every year -- and that's just from the food we eat. Microplastics are also found in the air we breathe and the water we drink. Thanks to a study published in the journal Environmental Scie...
High-speed Camera Shows How Tiny Particles Hit a Surface
When a tiny particle hits a metal surface at high speed, it causes extensive damage. But until now, the details of this process haven’t been clearly understood.For the first time, MIT researchers...
High-speed Camera Shows How Tiny Particles Hit a Surface
When a tiny particle hits a metal surface at high speed, it causes extensive damage. But until now, the details of this process haven’t been clearly understood.For the first time, MIT researchers...
Scientists Establish Limit on Effective Size of Dark Matter Particles
Using the world’s most sensitive detector, researchers have established tightest limit yet for dark matter. Experimental results from the XENON1T dark matter detector limit the effective size of the...
Scientists Establish Limit on Effective Size of Dark Matter Particles
Using the world’s most sensitive detector, researchers have established tightest limit yet for dark matter. Experimental results from the XENON1T dark matter detector limit the sufficient size of the...
Magnetized particles could solve our data storage problems
Scientists have discovered an unusual magnetic behavior that could solve one of the biggest problems faced by our data-hungry world: data storage. In recent decades we've been getting progressively better at storing data but unless we find new and mo...
Scientists made the first ‘unhackable’ quantum video call
Following extensive testing earlier this year, China has now deployed its quantum communications work in the form of the first ever quantum-safe video call. The call, between the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, marks...
NASA Develops New System to Detect Solar Particles to Protect Astronauts
NASA scientists have demonstrated that a new space weather warning system could help astronomers detect harmful solar particles much before they leave the sun's inner atmosphere -- critical extra...