Time moves a tad faster on the moon. Now an international group of astronomers has joined calls to give the...
Imagine a two-dimensional flatland, instead of our three-dimensional world, where the rules of physics are turned on their head and...
Physicists at Purdue are throwing the world’s smallest disco party. The disco ball itself is a fluorescent nanodiamond, which they...
Scientists from Yale University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a systematic approach to...
NASA’s Cold Atom Lab, a first-of-its-kind facility aboard the International Space Station, has taken another step toward revolutionizing how quantum...
When my colleagues and I set to work on a century-old cosmic mystery, we found an unexpected celestial laboratory in...
In a major step for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), scientists have detected the first neutrinos using a...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
For decades, the moon’s subtle gravitational pull has posed a vexing challenge—atomic clocks on its surface would tick faster than...
Four researchers from the Institute of Photonics at Leibniz University Hannover have developed a new transmitter-receiver concept for transmitting entangled...
For roughly 70 years, Play-Doh has been entertaining children with its moldable, squishy form. This familiar substance belongs to a...
A crowd or a flock of birds have different characteristics from those of atoms in a material, but when it...
