Bad,” or LDL, cholesterol is a major risk factor for heart disease and most people are screened for it as part of their yearly physicals ...

Close to the sun, the solar wind, a steady stream of charged particles, accelerates until it cannot turn back. During a record pass about 3.8 million miles above the surface, Parker Solar Probe ...

Kilauea has been erupting episodically within the summit caldera since Dec. 23, 2024. Its USGS Volcano Alert level is WATCH.

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Volcano Watch” is a weekly article and Big Island volcanic activity update written by U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano ...

Earthquake sensors are giving scientists a new way to track space junk as it falls back to Earth.

Scientists didn’t understand why independently oscillating microscopic particles suddenly begin moving in perfect sync when grouped together. Researchers showed that fluid-driven hydrodynamic ...

Several years ago, scientists discovered that a single microscopic particle could rock back and forth on its own under a ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

“Funny how something can hurt that’s no longer there,” remarks a child named Alma, referring to agonies associated with an amputated leg in the intense German drama “Sound of Falling.” Alma is one of ...