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 ...

Trillions of times smaller than a grain of sand and smaller than an atomic proton or neutron, quarks are among the smallest particles in the universe. They are essentially building blocks for ...

In recent years extracellular vesicles (EVs) have become one of the most studied entities due to their ability to regulate gene expression and alter the function of various cell types. There has been ...

Physicists have placed a new limit on how big the elusive neutrino can be—one of the universe’s smallest known particles—a limit that makes other subatomic particles look as big as black holes by ...

A "dark object" detected as an anomalous notch in the arc of a gravitationally warped section of space, could be the smallest clump of pure dark matter yet found. If so, it would further validate the ...

The dark object has a mass a million times greater than our sun's is located 10 billion light-years away and has no stars. A "dark object" detected as an anomalous notch in the arc of a ...