Different atoms and ions possess characteristic energy levels. Like a fingerprint, they are unique for each species. Among ...

One of the discoveries that fundamentally distinguished the emerging field of quantum physics from classical physics was the ...

Researchers demonstrated a new optical atomic clock that uses a single laser and doesn't require cryogenic temperatures. By greatly reducing the size and complexity of atomic clocks without ...

Under extreme planetary conditions, water turns into a strange, electricity-conducting solid hidden deep inside giant planets.

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

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

Kanazawa University, have captured real-time images showing how a key brain enzyme organizes itself to help memory formation.

Explainer: What is the status of Iran's main nuclear facilities? Regional fears of a U.S. attack on Iran have eased after President Donald Trump said Tehran had assured him that protesters would not ...

Delivering a lecture in 1959, theoretical physicist, Richard Feynman, wondered out loud: “What would the properties of materials be if we could really arrange the atoms the way we want them?” The ...