Killing cancer cells isn’t particularly hard – the tricky part is doing so without harming healthy cells. Researchers at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) have developed nanoparticles that ...

In the first millionths of a second after the Big Bang, the universe was a roiling, trillion-degree plasma of quarks and gluons — elementary particles that briefly glommed together in countless ...

Physicists at the world's largest atom smasher have detected a mysterious, primordial particle from the dawn of time. About 100 of the short-lived "X" particles — so named because of their unknown ...

ONE minute it’s a laser, the next it has dissolved away. A new postage stamp-sized device could be injected into the body to help with medical imaging. After use, its non-toxic materials would be ...

At a lab in the Czech Republic, researchers are developing tiny robots that could help. The microscopic robots “are moving machines the size of a red blood cell,” says Martin Pumera, a chemistry ...

Iron particles generated by cities and industry are being dissolved by man-made air pollution and washed into the sea - potentially increasing the amount of greenhouse gases that the world's oceans ...