A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers linked atomic-scale features to efficient heat-to-electricity conversion, offering ...

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

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The challenge: the process seemed random and notoriously difficult to predict.

For two centuries, students have learned that heat flows and engines work according to rigid limits that no machine can beat.

A joint research team from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory has achieved precise control and real-time observation of ...

In a Columbia University laboratory in New York, physicist Sebastian Will and his team have reached one of ultracold physics’ ...

The 1945 Trinity test produced heat 10,000 times greater than the surface of the sun and spread fallout across the country. Tina Cordova and her mother, Rosalie, relax at Bonito Lake, New Mexico, in ...

Developing durable oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts for acidic media is vital for advancing proton exchange membrane water electrolyzers (PEMWE). This study reveals that the stability of ...

New 'zentropy theory' based on quantum mechanics could unlock seemingly impossible electronic devices made with transparent ...

Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the ...

Ultracold atoms have successfully mimicked a fundamental quantum effect normally found in electronic circuits.