Scientists at the University of Warwick have cracked a long-standing problem in air pollution science: how to predict the movement of irregularly shaped nanoparticles as they drift through the air we ...

A new kind of laser uses tiny moving particles to produce beams of light. The laser is more programmable than standard lasers and the approach could be used to create visual displays that are sharp ...

A new dual-light microscope lets researchers observe micro- and nanoscale activity inside living cells without using dyes. The system captures both detailed structures and tiny moving particles at ...

This insight opens the door for new, efficient strategies to move, sort and separate particles. Discover the latest in science, tech, and space with over 100,000 subscribers who rely on Phys.org for ...

In the home, the lab and the factory, electric fields control technologies such as Kindle displays, medical diagnostic tests and devices that purify cancer drugs. In an electric field, anything with ...

Argonne scientists hope that tiny vortices, driven by various magnetic fields, will be able to move microscopic particles. Argonne researchers suspect these magnetic particles can actually talk to ...