Inside the microchips powering the device you're reading this on, the atoms have a hidden order all their own. A team led by ...

Professor Sir Peter Hirsch, who has died aged 100, travelled to England on the Kindertransport and went on to establish a ...

The precise imaging of many-body systems, which are comprised of many interacting particles, can help to validate theoretical ...

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

Scientists have created an artificial intelligence tool called SCIGEN that can potentially speed up the hunt for novel ...

Scientists have for the first time recorded complicated structures in ice formed by freezing liquid water at the nanoscale.

Your head is actually aging faster than the rest of you. Before you freak out, though, know that it’s only by nanoseconds—90 billionths of a second over 79 years, to be exact. That kind of difference ...

This past week, I began reading The Maniac, a fictionalized biography of John von Neumann. While von Neumann is perhaps lesser known than some of his contemporaries — Albert Einstein, J. Robert ...

We previously covered one such “gravity telescope” with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Another one is the Japanese project Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA).

In the area of energy applications, precisely controlling the nanoscale composition, defects, and interfaces in materials has enabled breakthroughs in ...

Cold atom experiments are among the most powerful and precise ways of investigating and measuring the universe and exploring ...