Nuclear physicists have long been working to reveal how the proton gets its spin. Now, a new method that combines...
Splash a few drops of water on a hot pan and if the pan is hot enough, the water will...
Both literally and figuratively, light pervades the world. It banishes darkness, conveys telecommunications signals between continents and makes visible the...
Astronomers at MIT, NASA, and elsewhere have a new way to measure how fast a black hole spins, by using...
For the first time, nuclear physicists have made precision measurements of a short-lived radioactive molecule, radium monofluoride (RaF). In their...
University of Michigan physicists have devised a way to manipulate active fluids, a type of fluid composed of individual units...
Researchers at the University of Bern have for the first time been able to pin down a prehistoric settlement of...
Every computing system, biological or synthetic, from cells to brains to laptops, has a cost. This isn’t the price, which...
It’s one thing to dream up a quantum internet that could send hacker-proof information around the world via photons superimposed...
In a May 15 paper released in the journal Physical Review Letters, Virginia Tech physicists revealed a microscopic phenomenon that...
In an amazing phenomenon of quantum physics known as tunneling, particles appear to move faster than the speed of light....
Named after an Italian theoretical physicist, Majoranas are complex quasiparticles that could be the key to building next-generation quantum computing...
