(More on that in a moment.) But as usual in science, there's more to the story. On human scales of mass and distance, matter obeys the laws of motion described by Sir Isaac Newton. Chief among ...

The wave-particle dualism afflicting modern physics is best resolved in favor of waves, believes the author, but there is no clear picture of matter on which physicists can agree By Erwin Schrödinger ...

Analytical chemistry is the science of obtaining, processing, and communicating information about the composition and structure of matter. In other words, it is the art and science of determining what ...

The word “matter,” we learn ... Mr. Tonelli explains how science eventually found a middle ground between Democritus and Aristotle. According to modern physics, atoms are divisible into ...

A new detector to home in on the mystery of dark matter is getting closer to deployment. At the University of Southampton in ...

Perhaps one of the most surprising discoveries of the 20th century was that this ordinary, or baryonic, matter makes up less than 5 percent of the mass of the universe. The rest of the universe ...

Find out more about this state of matter. Science Trek is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV ...

All our cosmological observations seem to suggest that normal matter we can see – the sort that makes up you, me, the planet we live on, the sun our planet orbits and the galaxy we all exist in ...