New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic particles. What happens to these ...

In a new study, scientists have shown that chemical receptors that plants use to recognize nitrogen-fixing bacteria have ...

Scientists reveal for the first time the atomic structure of liquid carbon, key to exoplanets and nuclear fusion.

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Discover the physics behind stamps sticking to envelopes, from fundamental forces to Van der Waals interactions, explained concisely.

UNSW quantum engineers have created quantum entanglement between two distant atoms in silicon using electrons as a bridge.UNSW engineers ...

A hidden world of quantum metrologists ensure that everyday devices perform safely and correctly, but their work is never ...

A strange kind of geometry governs how particles move inside matter. Now, for the first time, physicists have uncovered its ...

The pulse of an atom's magnetic heart as it ticks back and forth between quantum states has been timed in a laboratory. Physicists used a scanning tunneling microscope to observe electrons as they ...

Researchers present new experimental and theoretical results for the bound electron g-factor in lithium-like tin which has a much higher nuclear charge than any previous measurement. The experimental ...