But Luis Jauregui’s work, which might power quantum computers needed for long-range space exploration, also shows how basic ...

The microchips that power our phones, computers, and countless other devices look perfectly uniform on the outside, but on ...

Researchers with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have ...

Plutonium has captured the attention of scientists since its discovery in the early 1940s. This enigmatic element has an ...

Scientists at Delft University of Technology have managed to watch a single atomic nucleus flip its magnetic state in real time. Using a scanning tunneling microscope, they indirectly read the nucleus ...

Physicists have upended a foundational law of materials science by heating gold to over 19,000°C — more than 14 times its melting point — while it remained perfectly solid. The study, published in ...

Scientists have cracked open a mysterious layer inside batteries, using cutting-edge 3D atomic force microscopy to capture the dynamic molecular structures at their solid-liquid interfaces. These once ...

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