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

A new trick for modeling molecules with quantum accuracy takes a step toward revealing the equation at the center of a popular simulation approach, which is used in fundamental chemistry and materials ...

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

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

Why your phone charges quickly one day but slowly the next, or why electric cars still take an hour or more to charge, is a ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

Science fiction sometimes uses quantum concepts to make the impossible seem plausible. But real-world developments will ...

This article explores how our understanding of the universe has evolved—from the scale of everyday experience down to the ...

EPFL physicists and their collaborators have directly observed and controlled a rare double-dome pattern of superconductivity in twisted trilayer ...

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the ...

The researchers recorded a small number of unexplained signals suspected to be lightweight dark matter. A cutting-edge ...