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?

If you recently caught The Devil Wears Prada 2, you may have noticed that Andy (Anne Hathaway) begins the movie single. Despite kinda-sorta reconciling with her Boston-bound chef beau Nate (Adrian ...

Tuna salad is a staple lunch for me. Canned tuna is easy to prepare, affordable, and a convenient option if, like me, you don't eat meat. There's just one problem with tuna salad: I'm not sold on the ...

What if “good ventilation” doesn’t mean what you think it does? A new study of COVID outbreaks at a Sydney hospital found viral particles lingering in nearly 40% of air samples — even in areas with ...

Millions of women across the U.S. live with heavy menstrual bleeding, quietly adjusting their lives around a condition that can cause them to layer pads, set alarms during the night, and, in some ...

A pair of rare particles produced in high-energy proton collisions may be the clearest evidence yet that mass can emerge from empty space. The finding could shed light on one of the biggest puzzles in ...

The human eye functions like an exceptionally precise, high-end camera, one with a resolution of around 576 megapixels. What makes it intriguing is that although our eyes can focus on light at only ...

We all know that we should wash household items like clothes, dishes, and linens regularly, but are you being diligent about washing new items before you use them for the first time as well? As ...

An Editor at large: Columnist Gerard Baker returns from the U.K. with a question: With Jesus and Churchill out, and hedgehogs and Muslim-protecting Green plumbers in, when does Britain stop being ...

An Editor at Large: Columnist Gerard Baker explains how the public started out opposing the conflict in Iran, in part because of the Trump administration's lack of rhetorical prowess, and how that ...

In November, scientists arrived at the South Pole in planes outfitted with skis to pull off a construction project seven years in the making. They had a short summer window — November to early ...

It is commonly assumed that tiny particles just go with the flow as they make their way through soil, biological tissue, and other complex materials. But a team of Yale researchers led by Professor ...