The study found that negatively charged silica microparticles suspended in water attracted each other to form hexagonally arranged clusters. (Image: Zhang Kang) Besides overturning long-held beliefs, ...

It’s a fundamental principle of physics that particles with opposite charges attract each other, while those with the same charge repel. But now, scientists at the University of Oxford have found that ...

World-renowned American physicist Richard Feynman once claimed that the single most important concept in physics was the idea that everything, everywhere at any time is made up of a single thing. This ...