particle

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In a report last year, researchers with the Pacific Institute cited estimates that dust from the Salton Sea accounts for less than 1% of small particle pollution in the region.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

TAE creates something like a smoke ring of plasma and aims high-powered neutral particle beams at it to heat and stabilize it, spinning the plasma, like keeping a toy top in motion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

As a result, a larger particle has a stronger effect on a smaller particle than the smaller particle has on the larger one.

From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026

Several of the chapters, about particle accelerators and fusion reactors, take readers on cursory tours of facilities that have at best a tangential connection to space.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Though light acts like a particle sometimes, it acts like a wave at other times.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife