particle
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The cholesterol-carrying particle is similar to LDL, but it may be more damaging and its levels are largely determined by genetics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Scientific observations show the haze contains levels of toxic small particle pollution far exceeding the World Health Organization's recommended safe limit.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
The challenge is that ordinary matter can also produce particle interactions.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Using a sensitive detector in an an underground laboratory in the US, the researchers saw an atom and mystery particle colliding.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Perhaps the universe is just a quantum fluctuation on a grand scale—an enormous singular particle that came into existence out of the ultimate vacuum.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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"At the smallest spatial scales explored in the experiment, the production rate of J/ψ particles is significantly suppressed, with a statistical significance of about three standard deviations."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Instead of moving information around a chip with electrical signals, devices could transmit data using photons, the particles that make up light.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
Quantum mechanics has been enormously successful at describing atoms, particles, and other microscopic systems.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
"Sulphate aerosols, they are really small particles, but they are bright particles," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Casimir realized that the forbidden particle waves would affect the zero-point energy of the vacuum, since particles are everywhere winking in and out of existence.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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