Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have, for the first time, demonstrated a technique that synchronizes ultrashort ...

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

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

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

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

For centuries, the principle of symmetry has guided physicists towards more fundamental truths, but now a slew of shocking findings suggest a far stranger idea from quantum theory could be a deeper dr ...

She was trying to prove the structure of the B form of DNA through mathematical computations and more than 100 hours of ...

In classical physics, anything driven hard enough will eventually heat up, lose coherence, and settle into disorder. A new ...

He built the Great Mosque at Timbuktu, and Timbuktu became a very important commercial city, having caravan connections with Egypt and other important trader centers in North Africa. All of this made ...

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

Florida State University scientists have engineered a new crystal that forces atomic magnets to swirl into complex, repeating ...