Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that ...

Microplastic fibers from synthetic clothing have quietly become one of the most pervasive forms of pollution in rivers, ...

Two related discoveries detailing nanocrystalline mineral formation and dynamics have broad implications for managing nuclear ...

When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a sweeping motion to clean their own environment. Physicists at the University of ...

For decades, popular science has repeated a simple origin story: everything in our bodies was forged in ancient stars and ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

What happens as a raindrop impacts bare soil has been fairly well-studied, but what happens to raindrops afterward is poorly understood. We know that the initial splash of raindrops on soil ...

For decades, scientists have scavenged for mysterious the “ghost particles” known as neutrinos, which are subatomic particles with no mass and almost no electrical charge. Despite their elusive nature ...

(Corrections and clarifications: The Grand Sierra Resort's 10-year expansion is projected to cost $1 billion.) A Reno hotel-casino's new arena hit a roadblock after discovery of ground contamination ...

When Burl Ives sang "Silver and gold decorations, on every Christmas tree" in "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer," he surely didn't know that Christmas trees actually have gold inside their needles — but ...

A teacher at Pinckney Community High School has received a $2,000 grant to support an innovative science project. Stacy Trosin, a science teacher, was awarded the grant as part of Voya Financial's ...