As the nucleus splits, it also releases its neutrons. These neutrons bounce around at incredible speeds until some eventually ...

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called ...

Unstable atoms emit fast-moving particles that can damage cells in the human body. Some atoms are far more unstable than ...

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John Martinis built an electrical circuit-based oscillator on a microchip.

Nobel Prize winners show how superconducting circuits can exhibit quantum behavior, leading to transformative technologies.

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics honors three quantum physicists—John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis—for their ...

The weak nuclear force doesn't play by the normal rules — and, in fact, it breaks one of the biggest rules of all.

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

The Physics Nobel Prize goes to a trio for proving quantum weirdness—like particles passing through walls—can happen in the ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...

In March 1979, one of two reactors at the Three Mile Island plant in central Pennsylvania partially melted down, in what is ...

IonQ secured some big government contracts over the past year. It also acquired two of its peers to expand its presence in the defense industry. It launched a dedicated division, IonQ Federal, to ...