Researchers at TU Wien have developed a one-dimensional “quantum wire” using a gas of ultracold atoms. In this system, both ...

Space Forge is looking to manufacture semiconductor materials in orbit, where the microgravity enables cleaner crystals.

Scientists have discovered that Earth’s inner core may not be fully solid. A rare “superionic” state of matter could explain ...

Stardust alone can’t drive stellar winds, reshaping what we know about how aging stars spread life’s elements through space.

For decades, popular science has repeated a simple origin story: everything in our bodies was forged in ancient stars and ...

Impressively, the unit registered the lowest frequency loss of any chip to date. Specifically, the engineers noted that the new chip was 15x more stable and 100x more efficient in terms of microwave ...

NIMS, in joint research with the University of Tokyo, AIST, the University of Osaka, and Tohoku University, have proposed a ...

Zero-thermal-expansion (ZTE) materials are widely used in precision optics, cryogenic equipment and sensors, where even small ...

An experiment with ultracold atoms reveals that a strongly driven quantum system doesn’t always heat up as expected. In daily ...

A team of physicists has created a cloud of ultracold atoms that stubbornly resists the most basic rule of everyday ...

Quantum particles have a social life, of a sort. They interact and form relationships with each other, and one of the most ...

Time really does fly. And when you look back at 2025, we’re sure you’ve collected a mix of moments: some joyful, some ...