On October 16, 1843, the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton had an epiphany during a walk alongside Dublin’s Royal Canal....
Neutrons are among the basic building blocks of matter. As long as they are part of a stable atomic nucleus,...
A class of material called perovskites, which have special electronic bonding with many applications, could be useful for quantum sensing....
A new study has uncovered important behavior in the flow of electric current through quantum superconductors, potentially advancing the development...
Imagine walking into a room where several different grandfather clocks hang on the walls, each ticking at a different pace....
Physicists share a common interest in understanding how the physical world works. For example, when a particle physicist breaks apart...
When something draws us in like a magnet, we take a closer look. When magnets draw in physicists, they take...
A compressor hums, an air conditioning system rattles, a railway carriage chassis clatters, sending reverberations through its passengers. Vibrations are...
There is a profound mystery in our sun. While the sun’s surface temperature measures around 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, its outer...
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have designed and tested the world’s highest voltage polarized...
A solar cell developed by RIKEN physicists can be stretched without greatly affecting its ability to convert light into electricity....
New artificial intelligence (AI) models for plasma heating can do more than was previously thought possible, not only increasing the...
