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Earlier this year, researchers at the University of Cambridge unveiled a pilot-scale solar-driven process that tackles two global challenges: plastic pollution and low-carbon energy supply. By scaling ...

Every time I write about particle physics, I encounter a moment of uncertainty about a quantity that, at first glance, ought to be clear. How many kinds of elementary particles should I say there are?

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When considering what makes up a human body, a physicist drills down beyond the atomic level. Columnist Chanda ...

A philosopher has put forward an argument for rethinking how particles are defined within the standard model of particle ...

Millions of light-years away, millions of years ago, a star exploded. In this violent process, it ejected incredible amounts of mass, including carbon, nitrogen and oxygen—the building blocks of life.