Even the most mundane tools may bring forth complex truths in microgravity. On October 20, 2025, a set of small metal ball ...

ISS microgravity experiments reveal how particles cluster, helping science on Earth and future space missions.

In this Oct. 20, 2025, photo, tiny ball bearings surround a larger central bearing during the Fluid Particles experiment, ...

In reliability engineering, few indicators are as consistently revealing as the particles that infiltrate a lubrication ...

Materials scientists are measuring the rolling friction of tiny, micrometer-sized particles. These measurements permit them to better understand everyday products such as concrete. For the first time, ...

A new computational analysis supports the idea that photons (a.k.a. particles of light) colliding with heavy ions can create a fluid of 'strongly interacting' particles. In a new paper, they show that ...

Stirred tanks are common throughout the chemical process industries (CPI), used as batch reactors and continuous-flow ...

To melt a solid, heat it. To freeze a liquid, cool it. It's simple—except when it isn't, because quantum mechanics can flip even the intuitive logic of melting and freezing on its head. Physicists ...

The measuring tip of an atomic force microscope with a specially designed holder in which a spherical particle is “trapped”. Lacquers, paint, concrete—and even ketchup or orange juice: Suspensions are ...