July 9 marked 50 years since Tahoe Environmental Research Center founder Charles R. Goldman launched the John Le Conte on ...

Debates over the presence of microplastics in the human body highlight the challenge of studying something simultaneously invisible to the naked eye and abundant. How do you detect plastic in a human ...

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?

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill released nearly five million barrels of oil into the northeast Gulf over the course of 87 days. Kendra Daly, biological oceanography professor at the College of ...

Stardust Solutions says its tiny spheres can reflect the sun’s rays without harming people or the environment. Critics say private companies have no business altering Earth’s atmosphere. An enclosed ...

Physicists may have just cracked open a hidden side of the quantum world. For decades, every known particle was thought to belong to one of two categories — bosons or fermions — but researchers have ...

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 ...

Amid the West’s worst snow drought in modern history, several ski areas are attempting a novel approach: Storing up artificial snow and preserving it until next ski season. Subscribe to read this ...

When snow begins to fall during a winter storm, most people assume the danger to buildings depends on how many inches pile up. Engineers track those totals carefully because heavy snow can place ...

Imagine snow falling in the deep ocean. It sounds strange, but something very similar happens every day beneath the waves. Tiny particles drift slowly downward through the water like snowflakes.

As any diver knows, oceans can be cloudy places. Even on sunny days, snow-like particles drift through the water column, obscuring the aquatic world below. Scientists have long known that this “marine ...