One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists ...

A new chip-based quantum memory uses nanoprinted “light cages” to trap light inside atomic vapor, enabling fast, reliable ...

Electronics keep shrinking, but silicon is starting to run into physical limits. To go smaller, researchers are turning to ...

Omar Yaghi, the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair in UC Berkeley's College of Chemistry and an affiliate at Lawrence Berkeley ...

When the US Department of Energy announced that it would stop funding the tokamak at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, ...

A 40-atom gold nanocluster breaks from gold's signature dense packing, forming square atomic planes with a central channel that accelerates electron relaxation about 80x.

Cecilia Van Cauwenberghe explains how to measure the future using nanoscale metrology and discusses the global competition ...

The Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Nuclear Research Institute recently unveiled the new structure, the ...

Scientists have beamed a laser into the sky, which was visible from miles around. The spectacle, known as The Beam, marked ...

By forcing crystal structures to compete, scientists uncovered a new way to make magnetism twist. Florida State University ...

Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics ...