A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers linked atomic-scale features to efficient heat-to-electricity conversion, offering ...

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

Liquids and solutions may look simple, but on the molecular scale they are constantly shifting and reorganizing. When sugar dissolves in water, each sugar molecule quickly becomes surrounded by fast ...

For two centuries, students have learned that heat flows and engines work according to rigid limits that no machine can beat.

Most of today's quantum computers rely on qubits with Josephson junctions that work for now but likely won't scale as needed ...

Light has always been the stage on which quantum mechanics performs its strangest tricks, and the double-slit experiment is ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old as time itself.

They're called ghost particles for a reason. They're everywhere—trillions of them constantly stream through everything: our ...

DNA doesn’t just sit still inside our cells — it folds, loops, and rearranges in ways that shape how genes behave. Researchers have now mapped this hidden architecture in unprecedented detail, showing ...

Proton collisions at the LHC appear wildly chaotic, but new data reveal a surprising underlying order. The findings confirm that a basic rule of quantum mechanics holds true even in extreme particle ...