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particle

[pahr-ti-kuhl] / ˈpɑr tɪ kəl /


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Telescopes and particle accelerators, for example, collect billions of data points – too large for the brain to comprehend.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

As AI agents process the mass of data emerging from particle accelerators, the cosmos and the natural world, how do we know they are getting it right?

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

“The ‘particles’ of particle physics,” Mr. Rovelli explains, “are not particles like grains of sand: the very notion of a particle is a metaphor.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

By combining this technology with a new approach for keeping individual molecules confined and continuously observable, the team could repeatedly measure the mass of a growing particle as additional proteins attached.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

In some worlds there will be many suns in the daytime sky, many moons in the heavens at night, or great particle ring systems soaring from horizon to horizon.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Jupiter's additional shock structures reveal a more complicated process for managing the energy carried by solar particles.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

Led by scientists at the University of Iowa, the research provides the most detailed observations yet of Jupiter's bow shock, an invisible boundary where particles from the Sun encounter the planet's magnetic environment.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

It slows and heats the incoming particles, helping redirect much of the solar wind around the planet.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

The discovery reveals important differences in how Jupiter and Earth respond to these incoming particles.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

But it could not show the mechanism which causes light to reflect or refract, or the particles that cause smells.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton


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