For much of my career, I have been fascinated by the ways in which materials behave when we reduce their dimensions to the ...

Water is all around us, yet its surface layer—home to chemical reactions that shape life on Earth—is surprisingly hard to study. Experiments at SLAC's X-ray laser are bringing it into focus.

A violent stellar explosion has just given astronomers their clearest look yet at how some of the raw ingredients for biology ...

Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never ...

Every breath of air, every strand of DNA and every cell in my body carries a chemical story that began long before Earth ...

Trident Technical College astronomy professor Blake Crosby has a gift for translating complex science into fascinating conversation. He kindly agreed to answer imaginative questions about cosmic myste ...

Understanding The Quantum Of Energy What Is A Quantum Of Energy? So, what exactly is a quantum of energy? Think of it like ...

The reason we can gracefully glide on an ice-skating rink or clumsily slip on an icy sidewalk is that the surface of ice is ...

How the world of the smallest particles is structured, what is known about fundamental forces, and what particles have to do ...

Researchers built a four-atom-thick transistor combining an atomically thin semiconductor and molecular crystal. It uses ...

A radical new theory begins with a central claim: consciousness is the fundamental field of reality; time, space, and matter ...