The original story “ Physicists build a quantum Newton’s cradle where energy flows without resistance ” is published in The ...

Maria Goeppert Mayer is remembered as one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century. She was born in Germany ...

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When Richard Feynman first conceived of quantum computers in the 1980s, he believed they should primarily investigate quantum phenomena. So that’s what a group of chemists did: they used quantum ...

Yellow waves show propagating atomic vibrations observed at ORNL's Spallation Neutron Source. In a smart, switchable ceramic, an electric field aligns ...

(NYT) — A novel type of nuclear power plant in Wyoming backed by Bill Gates received a key federal permit Wednesday, making it the first new U.S. commercial reactor in nearly a decade to receive ...

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Michel van der Aa’s “Theory of Flames” originates from a question: “How can we relate to people if we don’t believe in the ...

Researchers at the University of Vienna have uncovered a surprising phenomenon: polymer chains with segments that simply ...

An international team of scientists from IBM, The University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL and the University of Regensburg have created and characterized a molecule unlike any ...

A ring of 13 carbon atoms and two chlorine atoms has a remarkable molecular structure that means you would have to go around the loop four times to return to your starting position ...

Before CMOS sensors, digital cameras used charge-coupled devices or CCD sensors. This classic sensor design gathers light from the pixels and sends it to an amplifier in order to convert energy from ...