Nuclear physicists studying particle collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)—a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user...
The atomic nucleus is a busy place. Its constituent protons and neutrons occasionally collide, and briefly fly apart with high...
What is the connection between boron, an element in a common household cleaner, and tokamaks, ring-shaped fusion facilities that heat...
Turbulence plays a key role in our daily lives, making for bumpy plane rides, affecting weather and climate, limiting the...
Bacteria collaborate and coordinate collectively as they form a shared structure called a biofilm, such as the dental plaque on...
As the size of modern technology shrinks down to the nanoscale, weird quantum effects—such as quantum tunneling, superposition, and entanglement—become...
Physicists from TU Delft, ETH Zürich and the University of Tübingen have built a quantum scale heat pump made from...
An encryption tool co-created by a University of Cincinnati math professor will soon safeguard the telecommunications, online retail and banking...
Whether in photosynthesis or in a photovoltaic system: if you want to use light efficiently, you have to absorb it...
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have managed to entangle more than a dozen photons efficiently and...
Sensitive animal noses can sniff out trace particles, such as volatile organic compounds, in the ambient air. Humans, on the...
Elon Musk in 2020 said that artificial intelligence (AI) within five years would surpass human intelligence on its way to...
