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Particles move in beautiful patterns when they have ‘spatial memory’

A beautiful and surprisingly complex pattern produced by ‘mathematical billiards’ Albers et al. PRL 2024 In a mathematical version of…

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Waiakea Hawaiian Volcanic Water recalled over consumer complaints of floating particles

Waiakea Bottling Inc., located in Hilo, HI,  is recalling certain Waiakea Hawaiian Volcanic Water Naturally Alkaline Electrolytes Deep Well Water…

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‘Running of the bulls’ festival crowds move like charged particles

Crowds at the San Fermín festival in Pamplona during the famous bull run Migel/Shutterstock People in a very dense crowd…

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Magnetic particles turn water droplets into tightrope-walking acrobats

A new technique can precisely steer drops of water around obstacle courses and into chemical reactions Jonathan Knowles/Getty Images Putting…

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Physicists discover a quantum state with a new type of emergent particles: Six-flux composite fermions

If the fractional quantum Hall regime were a series of highways, these highways would have either two or four lanes.…

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Wobbling particles in the sky

Tiny particles such as ice crystals or ash particles tend to oscillate as they settle through the atmosphere. In their…

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Bottled water has up to 100 times more plastic particles than previously thought

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. At this point, it’s common knowledge that bottled water contains microplastics—fragments…

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Scientists Find About A Quarter Million Nanoplastic Particles In Bottled Water

The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics, detected and…

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There can be 240,000 plastic particles in a litre bottle of water

Scientists used lasers to identify plastic particles within water bottles Naixin Qian, Columbia University A single 1-litre bottle of water…

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Axions: The wonder particles that could solve more than just dark matter

IN 1977, physicist Frank Wilczek took a walk that would change the course of particle physics forever. “On that walk,…

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