MIT researchers found that metals retain hidden atomic patterns once believed to vanish during manufacturing. These patterns ...

Our universe appears to be doing so now, which means that over time more and more stars are disappearing outside of our view.

The Nobel Prize-winning MOFs could be used to mop up pollutants, turn toxic substances benign and make water from desert air ...

Caroline Steel investigates the immortality of atoms by travelling to CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory located along the border of France and Switzerland. There, theoretical ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...

The neutral-atom platform appears promising for scaling up quantum computers. To solve some of the toughest challenges in ...

MIT researchers found that a hidden atomic order can persist in metals even after they undergo extreme processing. For ...

The 2025 Nobel prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists for the discovery of an effect that has applications in ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, ...

Quantum mechanics describes the weird behavior of microscopic particles. Using quantum systems to perform computation ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis demonstrated quantum tunneling in an electrical circuit, with ...