Plasma, the electrically charged state of matter that lights up stars and neon signs, has just revealed a subtle effect that ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In the home, the lab and the factory, electric fields control technologies such as Kindle displays, medical diagnostic tests and devices that purify cancer drugs. In an electric ...

While braking in your car may protect you from accidents and save your life, it could actually be harmful to your health in other ways, new research has found. Particles released into the air as ...

What if particles don't slow down in a crowd, but move faster? Physicists from Leiden worked together and discovered a new state of matter, where particles pass on energy through collisions and create ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Daniel K. Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder and Ankur Gupta, University of ...