Real particles are lumps of energy that can be "seen" or detected by appropriate instruments; this feature is what makes them ...

Virtual particles exploit the natural fuzziness of the subatomic world, where if these ephemeral particles live briefly enough, they can also briefly borrow their energy from empty space. The haziness ...

The paper, recently published in the journal PNAS, found that roundworms can use static electricity to leap up to 25 times ...

We obviously can’t put the universe on a giant set of scales, but scientists have found astonishingly clever ways to […] ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) ...

Dura-Belt’s Jim Hammond shares his expert insights about designing, manufacturing and maintaining thermoplastic elastic belts ...

Microscopic parasitic worms use static electricity to pull themselves toward flying insects, turning physics into a powerful ...

The Zeitgeist imagines what a Resonance wristwatch might have looked like had it been achieved centuries ago - when ...

Armored vehicles used by Kenyan police rumble through the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The vehicles are part of the United States’ more than $600 million in contributions to the U.N.-backed ...

On Oct. 3, The Globe and Mail spoke with Sid Mokhtari, CIBC’s chief market technician, to get his technical take on equities and whether he sees markets nearing a top or believes they could rally ...