Rutgers scientist Phoebe Stapleton answers PEOPLE's questions about a pioneering new study on nano-sized plastic particles discovered in bottled water.

The Standard Model is the modern physical understanding of three of the four forces of nature: electromagnetism, the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force.

The particles are so tiny that the task of making them collide is like firing two needles 10 kilometres (6 miles) at each other with the precision to make them collide.

A cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator. It uses magnetic and electric fields to speed up charged particles like protons or ions to very high speeds. This allows the particles to collide with ...

The fact that electrons have the quantum property of spin is essential for our world as we know it. Yet physicists don’t think the particles are actually spinning.

By proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t flow in reverse.