Millions could benefit from more accurate risk assessments for coronary heart through a simple test for small dense LDL cholesterol. Despite heart disease being the world’s leading cause of death, ...

Among ionising radiation, alpha and beta particles are charged particles that have widely attracted research attention because of their use in a number of applications including smoke detectors, ...

How do you search for invisible hypothetical particles? One way is to see how quickly they could kill white dwarfs — the dense, leftover cores of dead stars. In recent years, astronomers have become ...

January's moon — often known as the "Wolf Moon" in reference to the packs of famished carnivores that can be heard howling ...

Classical and quantum mechanics don’t really get along as the science of the subatomic can get, well, weird. Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be ...

When preparing your holiday meals, the last thing you want to be thinking about is serving up a plate of microplastics. While these invisible-to-the-eye plastic particles can be found in everything ...

Volcanic disasters were increasing in number, but the next greatest disaster of this kind could be caused by hidden volcanoes or dormant ones.

Meet Ava, the golden tabby tiger 🐅 stealing hearts worldwide. Born in 2021 at Thailand’s Chiang Mai Night Safari, she’s one ...