{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Phys.org news tagged with:particles","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/","language":"en-us","description":"Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine.","item":[{"title":"NOvA maps neutrino oscillations over 500 miles with 10 years of data","description":"Neutrinos are very small, neutral subatomic particles that rarely interact with ordinary matter and are thus sometimes referred to as ghost particles. There are three known types (i.e., flavors) of neutrinos, dubbed muon, electron and tau neutrinos.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-nova-neutrino-oscillations-miles-years.html","category":"General Physics","pubDate":"Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:50:01 EST","guid":"news689869250"},{"title":"China's emissions policies are helping climate change but also creating a new problem","description":"China's sweeping efforts to clean up its air have delivered one of the biggest public health success stories of recent decades. Since the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan was launched in 2013, coal-fired power plants have been fitted with scrubbers, heavy industry has been modernized and pollution standards tightened, leading to an over 50% reduction in atmospheric particulate matter.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-china-emissions-policies-climate-problem.html","category":"Earth Sciences","pubDate":"Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:50:01 EST","guid":"news689850775"},{"title":"Microfluidic method boosts control and separation of tiny particles\u2014a promising tool for medical research","description":"In nanoscale particle research, precise control and separation have long been a bottleneck in biotechnology. Researchers at the University of Oulu have now developed a new method that improves particle separation and purification. The promising technique could be applied, for example, in cancer research.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-microfluidic-method-boosts-tiny-particles.html","category":"Bio & Medicine","pubDate":"Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:00:01 EST","guid":"news689875262"},{"title":"Muon Knight shift reveals the behavior of superconducting electron pairs","description":"Quantum materials and superconductors are difficult enough to understand on their own. Unconventional superconductors, which cannot be explained within the framework of standard theory, take the enigma to an entirely new level. A typical example of unconventional superconductivity is strontium ruthenate, SRO214, the superconductive properties of which were discovered by a research team that included Yoshiteru Maeno, who is currently at the Toyota Riken\u2014Kyoto University Research Center.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-muon-knight-shift-reveals-behavior.html","category":"Condensed Matter","pubDate":"Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:20:06 EST","guid":"news689867457"},{"title":"Chemistry isn't always essential for order: How simple geometry gives rise to complex materials","description":"Utrecht University researchers Rodolfo Subert and Marjolein Dijkstra show in their latest study that complex three-dimensional networks in materials can emerge from nothing more than particle shape. In Nature Communications they describe how simple geometries, aided by entropy, can give rise to layers, networks and even spontaneous left- and right-handed twisting, which is a phenomenon previously linked mainly to highly complex molecules.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-chemistry-isnt-essential-simple-geometry.html","category":"Analytical Chemistry","pubDate":"Sun, 08 Feb 2026 10:00:03 EST","guid":"news689508594"},{"title":"Scientists discover 'levitating' time crystals that you can hold in your hand","description":"Time crystals, a collection of particles that \"tick\"\u2014or move back and forth in repeating cycles\u2014were first theorized and then discovered about a decade ago. While scientists have yet to create commercial or industrial applications for this intriguing form of matter, these crystals hold great promise for advancing quantum computing and data storage, among other uses.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-scientists-levitating-crystals.html","category":"General Physics","pubDate":"Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:29:24 EST","guid":"news689603342"},{"title":"Into the neutrino fog: The ghosts haunting our search for dark matter","description":"Ciaran O'Hare scribbles symbols using colored markers across his whiteboard like he's trying to solve a crime\u2014or perhaps planning one. He bounces around the edges of the board, slowly filling it with sharp angles and curling letters. I watch on, and when he senses I'm losing track, he pauses intermittently, allowing my brain to catch up. Ciaran speaks with an easy to understand British inflection, but the language on the whiteboard might as well be hieroglyphics.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-neutrino-fog-ghosts-dark.html","category":"General Physics","pubDate":"Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:50:02 EST","guid":"news689517796"},{"title":"Glimpsing the quantum vacuum: Particle spin correlations offer insight into how visible matter emerges from 'nothing'","description":"Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered experimental evidence that particles of matter emerging from energetic subatomic smashups retain a key feature of virtual particles that exist only fleetingly in the quantum vacuum. The finding offers a new way to explore how the vacuum\u2014once thought of as empty space\u2014provides important ingredients needed to transform virtual \"nothingness\" into the matter that makes up our world.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-glimpsing-quantum-vacuum-particle-insight.html","category":"General Physics","pubDate":"Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:20:01 EST","guid":"news689442697"},{"title":"L\u00fcften sounds simple, but 'house-burping' is more complicated in Pittsburgh","description":"Recently, the German term \"l\u00fcften\" has been circulating on social media and trending on Google. The term refers to the practice of opening windows and doors to replace stale indoor air with outdoor air, a longtime practice in many European homes. Americans have dubbed it \"house burping\" in many videos on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-lften-simple-house-burping-complicated.html","category":"Environment","pubDate":"Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:54:39 EST","guid":"news689428442"},{"title":"A new class of strange one-dimensional particles","description":"Physicists have long categorized every elementary particle in our three-dimensional universe as being either a boson or a fermion\u2014the former category mostly capturing force carriers like photons, the latter including the building blocks of everyday matter like electrons, protons, or neutrons. But in lower dimensions of space, the neat categorization starts to break down.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-class-strange-dimensional-particles.html","category":"General Physics","pubDate":"Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:20:01 EST","guid":"news689342039"},{"title":"Did we just see a black hole explode? Physicists think so\u2014and it could explain (almost) everything","description":"In 2023, a subatomic particle called a neutrino crashed into Earth with such a high amount of energy that it should have been impossible. In fact, there are no known sources anywhere in the universe capable of producing such energy\u2014100,000 times more than the highest-energy particle ever produced by the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator. However, a team of physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently hypothesized that something like this could happen when a special kind of black hole, called a \"quasi-extremal primordial black hole,\" explodes.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-black-hole-physicists.html","category":"Astronomy","pubDate":"Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:10:06 EST","guid":"news689341987"},{"title":"Warning of kidney cell damage from high exposure to nanoplastics","description":"As concerns rise about the effects of tiny plastic particles on human health, Flinders University researchers have led new research on whether nanoplastics can accumulate or cause damage in kidneys\u2014our body's major blood filtering system. Their study, just published in the journal Cell Biology and Toxicology, calls for more investigations into the long-term risks, warning that high nanoplastics (NPs) particle \"burden\" could seriously compromise kidney cell health and function.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-kidney-cell-high-exposure-nanoplastics.html","category":"Bio & Medicine","pubDate":"Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:47:42 EST","guid":"news689338022"},{"title":"Microplastics behave differently in aquatic environments depending on whether they are fragments or fibers","description":"Researchers led by Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1357 Microplastics at the University of Bayreuth have overturned a common scientific assumption in a new study: Microplastic particles do not all exhibit similar transport behavior regardless of their shape. Instead, microplastics behave differently in aquatic environments depending on whether they occur as fragments or fibers. This insight reshapes our understanding of how strongly organisms are exposed to microplastics\u2014an assessment that is crucial for evaluating the environmental risks posed by microplastic pollution.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-microplastics-differently-aquatic-environments-fragments.html","category":"Environment","pubDate":"Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:46:44 EST","guid":"news689330761"},{"title":"Real-time single-event position detection using high-radiation-tolerance GaN","description":"Silicon semiconductors are widely used as particle detectors; however, their long-term operation is constrained by performance degradation in high-radiation environments. Researchers at University of Tsukuba have demonstrated real-time, two-dimensional position detection of individual charged particles using a gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor with superior radiation tolerance.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-real-event-position-high-tolerance.html","category":"General Physics","pubDate":"Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:52:31 EST","guid":"news689273521"},{"title":"AI streamlines deluge of data from particle collisions","description":"Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a novel artificial intelligence (AI)-based method to dramatically tame the flood of data generated by particle detectors at modern accelerators. The new custom-built algorithm uses a neural network to intelligently compress collision data, adapting automatically to the density or \"sparsity\" of the signals it receives.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-ai-deluge-particle-collisions.html","category":"General Physics","pubDate":"Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:40:02 EST","guid":"news689264530"},{"title":"Infrared running of gravity offers a field-theoretic route to dark matter phenomena","description":"The mystery of dark matter\u2014unseen, pervasive, and essential in standard cosmology\u2014has loomed over physics for decades. In new research, I explore a different possibility: Rather than postulating new particles, I propose that perhaps gravity itself behaves differently on the largest scales.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-infrared-gravity-field-theoretic-route.html","category":"Astronomy","pubDate":"Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:40:09 EST","guid":"news689247429"},{"title":"Record-breaking photons at telecom wavelengths\u2014on demand","description":"A team of researchers from the University of Stuttgart and the Julius-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t W\u00fcrzburg led by Prof. Stefanie Barz (University of Stuttgart) has demonstrated a source of single photons that combines on-demand operation with record-high photon quality in the telecommunications C-band\u2014a key step toward scalable photonic quantum computation and quantum communication. \"The lack of a high-quality on-demand C-band photon source has been a major problem in quantum optics laboratories for over a decade\u2014our new technology now removes this obstacle,\" says Prof. Stefanie Barz.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-photons-telecom-wavelengths-demand.html","category":"Optics & Photonics","pubDate":"Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:59:49 EST","guid":"news689003942"},{"title":"How brick-building bacteria react to toxic chemical in Martian soil","description":"Bacteria that thrive on Earth may not make it in the alien lands of Mars. A potential deterrent is perchlorate, a toxic chlorine-containing chemical discovered in Martian soil during various space missions.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-brick-bacteria-react-toxic-chemical.html","category":"Astrobiology","pubDate":"Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:39:28 EST","guid":"news688984741"},{"title":"NASA researchers probe tangled magnetospheres of merging neutron stars","description":"New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with the most comprehensive look yet into the maelstrom of interacting magnetic structures around city-sized neutron stars in the moments before they crash. The team identified potential signals emitted during the stars' final moments that may be detectable by future observatories.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-nasa-probe-tangled-magnetospheres-merging.html","category":"Astronomy","pubDate":"Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:22:43 EST","guid":"news688922521"},{"title":"How mining legacy dust leaves a uranium fingerprint in children's hair","description":"For decades, families in communities around Johannesburg have been living close to huge gold mining waste dumps. For many residents, the dust that is released there is just part of everyday life\u2014but it can contain natural uranium compounds that come to the surface with the mined rock. A new study in the journal Environmental Geochemistry and Health reveals how this exposure is reflected in children's hair.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-legacy-uranium-fingerprint-children-hair.html","category":"Earth Sciences","pubDate":"Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:40:01 EST","guid":"news688912555"},{"title":"Burning satellites in the stratosphere: Emerging questions for climate","description":"The sky is getting crowded. In the last few years, the number of satellite launches has increased by an order of magnitude as mega-constellations of internet-powering hardware crowd into low Earth orbit. The pace of both launching and retiring these units is creating new kinds of pollution, potentially upsetting the climate system and the protective ozone layer.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-satellites-stratosphere-emerging-climate.html","category":"Space Exploration","pubDate":"Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:27:48 EST","guid":"news688908421"},{"title":"Older petrol and diesel vehicles produce 50% of harmful particle emissions in Finland, study shows","description":"In Finland, the average age of passenger cars is among the highest in Europe, and the majority of traffic-related particle emissions are produced by ICE vehicles that are more than 15 years old. The worst polluters are old diesel cars without a diesel particulate filter.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-older-petrol-diesel-vehicles-particle.html","category":"Environment","pubDate":"Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:52:27 EST","guid":"news688841521"},{"title":"Alfv\u00e9n waves act as the power source behind Earth's auroral displays, research reveals","description":"The dazzling lights of the aurora are created when high-energy particles from space collide with Earth's atmosphere. While scientists have long understood this process, one big mystery remained: What powers the electric fields that accelerate these particles in the first place?","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-alfvn-power-source-earth-auroral.html","category":"Planetary Sciences","pubDate":"Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:48:54 EST","guid":"news688823281"},{"title":"Multiwavelength monitoring reveals distant blazar OP 313's behavior","description":"An international team of astronomers has analyzed the data from long-term multiwavelength monitoring of a distant blazar known as OP 313. Results of the new study, published January 18 on the arXiv preprint server, shed more light on the peculiar behavior of this object.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-multiwavelength-reveals-distant-blazar-op.html","category":"Astronomy","pubDate":"Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:10:05 EST","guid":"news688797171"},{"title":"Collaboration of elementary particles: How teamwork among photon pairs overcomes quantum errors","description":"Some things are easier to achieve if you're not alone. As researchers from the University of Rostock, Germany have shown, this very human insight also applies to the most fundamental building blocks of nature.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-collaboration-elementary-particles-teamwork-photon.html","category":"Optics & Photonics","pubDate":"Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:40:01 EST","guid":"news688663613"},{"title":"AI makes quantum field theories computable","description":"An old puzzle in particle physics has been solved: How can quantum field theories be best formulated on a lattice to optimally simulate them on a computer? The answer comes from AI.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-ai-quantum-field-theories.html","category":"General Physics","pubDate":"Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:11:58 EST","guid":"news688655448"},{"title":"New nanoparticle technology offers hope for hard-to-treat diseases","description":"A newly published Perspective article in Nature Nanotechnology details groundbreaking nanoparticle technology to eliminate harmful, disease-causing proteins in the body. The technology marks a transformative leap in the potential to drug \"undruggable\" proteins, to treat diseases such as dementia and brain cancer.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-nanoparticle-technology-hard-diseases.html","category":"Bio & Medicine","pubDate":"Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:20:01 EST","guid":"news688310445"},{"title":"Microplastics in the atmosphere: Higher emissions come from land areas than from the ocean, study finds","description":"The atmosphere is an important transport medium that carries microplastics to even the most remote parts of the world. These microplastics can be inhaled and pose a health risk to humans and animals. They can also settle out of the atmosphere and contaminate oceans and soils worldwide.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-microplastics-atmosphere-higher-emissions-areas.html","category":"Earth Sciences","pubDate":"Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:10:03 EST","guid":"news688230491"},{"title":"Measuring the consequences of plastic contamination","description":"Plastic pollution is everywhere\u2014including where you would least expect it, especially when it's in tiny particle form. Today, scientists are working to measure the consequences of this contamination. There's the pollution you can see\u2014on the beach, on the roadside and in open-air landfills. And then there's the pollution you can't\u2014on the peak of Mount Everest, deep inside the Mariana Trench, in clouds, in buildings, and in our water supply, food, blood and brain.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-consequences-plastic-contamination.html","category":"Environment","pubDate":"Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:06:42 EST","guid":"news688392345"},{"title":"Questions are being raised about microplastics studies\u2014here's what's solid science and what isn't","description":"Over the past few years, studies have suggested that plastic particles from bottles, food packaging and waste have been detected in human blood, lungs, placentas, arteries and even the brain. But a recent investigation by The Guardian suggests that some of these claims may be less robust than they first appeared.","link":"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-microplastics-solid-science-isnt.html","category":"Education","pubDate":"Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:16:31 EST","guid":"news688385761"}]}}