Researchers have reported new experimental results addressing the origin of rare proton-rich isotopes heavier than iron, ...

So-called forever chemicals or PFAS compounds are a growing environmental problem. An innovative approach to treating ...

Smaller version Illustration of a conventional atomic fountain clock (left) next to NPL’s miniature atomic fountain clock.

By shining a focused laser beam onto a sample of material, a team at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and ETH Zürich showed ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

Scientists have shown that twisting a crystal at the nanoscale can turn it into a tiny, reversible diode, hinting at a new era of shape-engineered electronics.

Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and colleagues have developed a new way to fabricate ...

Each station is to be capable of communication at a speed of 100 five-letter words per minute each way, during a daily ...

First experimental observation of matter-wave diffraction in a short-lived electronpositron atom using a graphene-based ...

“Positronium is the simplest atom composed of equal-mass constituents, and until it self-annihilates, it behaves as a neutral ...