particles
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Hantavirus is a rare disease typically transmitted to humans through inhalation of particles contaminated with the urine, droppings or saliva from a rodent.
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026
Physicists have traditionally sorted all elementary particles in our three-dimensional universe into two categories: bosons and fermions.
From Science Daily • May 9, 2026
In lower dimensional systems, particles have fewer possible paths available.
From Science Daily • May 9, 2026
The particles looked like they were "escaping the Moon", he said.
From BBC • May 8, 2026
Motion, according to the atomists, was the movement of these little particles.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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