Credit: DUST Identity Back-to-birth parts tracing might be worth its weight in gold for the aerospace industry, but an Airbus and Lockheed Martin-backed startup is turning to a much harder ...

In recent years, residents of Spain, France and the UK have looked up to see an eerie sight: deep orange sunrises and skies thick with a yellowish haze. These hazy skies often deposit “blood rain”, ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is in the business of discovering new subatomic particles—and business is good. The team at CERN recently announced the discovery of a new particle, named Ξcc⁺ or Xi-cc ...

Modelling suggests that the layer beneath the planet’s acidic clouds is comprised of particles from outer space.

Listen to the full conversation in the player near the end of this article. "We want to keep it fresh in every sense, we're always playing around with all sorts of different sounds and stuff in the ...

Using high-intensity lasers, researchers have taken an important step toward miniaturization of particle accelerators by demonstrating free-electron laser amplification at extreme ultraviolet ...

A vertical dark band cutting through a bright nebula marks the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star IRAS 04302+2247. Observations of such disks will help astronomers understand how small ...

Research appearing in Communications Materials has shown that perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are remarkably resilient to dust during production, challenging the industry belief that high-performance ...

A massive dust storm, or haboob, swept across the Sahara Desert from western Algeria into Mauritania, Morocco, Western Sahara and the Canary Islands on Monday. The dust stretched for more than 1,000 ...

President Trump said he wants Iran to give up its nuclear materials — down to the “nuclear dust,” as part of the ongoing peace talks. “We want the nuclear dust. We’re going to want that,” he told ...

Tiny organisms on the ground—bacteria and fungi—have a "superpower" that allows them to reach up into the atmosphere and pull ...