In an ongoing game of cosmic hide and seek, scientists have a new tool that may give them an edge....
For nearly 50 years, physicists have dreamed of the secrets they could unlock by raising the energy state of an...
A material with a high electron mobility is like a highway without traffic. Any electrons that flow into the material...
In humankind’s ever-ticking pursuit of perfection, scientists have developed an atomic clock that is more precise and accurate than any...
Stars blinking code in Netflix’s “3 Body Problem” might be science fiction, but by deciphering neutron stars’ erratic flickers, a...
In a paper published today in Nature Communications, researchers unveiled previously unobserved phenomena in an ultra-clean sample of the correlated...
Nuclear fusion—when two nuclei combine to form a new nucleus, thereby releasing energy—may be the clean, reliable, limitless power source...
There is a lot going on inside atomic nuclei. Protons and neutrons are whizzing around and interacting with each other....
The international NOvA collaboration presented new results at the Neutrino 2024 conference in Milan, Italy, on June 17. The collaboration...
When ultrafast electrons are deflected, they emit light—synchrotron radiation. This is used in so-called storage rings in which magnets force...
Dark energy—a mysterious force pushing the universe apart at an ever-increasing rate—was discovered 26 years ago, and ever since, scientists...
The bottom of the ocean is not hospitable. There is no light; the temperature is freezing cold; and the pressure...
