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

A ccording to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important ...

You don’t need to be a math genius to start learning quantum physics; many books break it down simply. There are books that ...

Nobel Prize in Physics is a tribute to the scientists who first discovered quantum behaviors in a macroscopic electrical ...

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

For decades, it's been known that subtle chemical patterns exist in metal alloys, but researchers thought they were too minor to matter—or that they got erased during manufacturing. However, recent ...

Astronomers said they had found "undepleted phosphine," a molecule associated with life, on Earth in the atmosphere of a ...

Metal-organic frameworks can store huge amounts of gas in a tiny space—enabling advances that could help humans fight climate ...

Stanford researchers have developed a mathematical model to map the microscopic structure of materials to plan nuclear waste storage.

The discovery honored with this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics takes phenomena observed in the subatomic world—the ...