For the first time, scientists have created oxygen-28, a rare oxygen isotope that has 12 more neutrons than oxygen-16, the most common form of oxygen on the planet. This newly created "heavy" oxygen ...

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While a quantum computer could factor a 2048-bit RSA key in less than a week with fewer than a million qubits, there are ...

Scientists use light to change matter’s magnetic nature at room temperature, revealing quantum effects once thought impossible.

As someone who studies materials, Lu Li knows people want to hear about the exciting new applications and technologies his ...

A Los Alamos collaboration has replicated an important but largely forgotten physics experiment: the first deuterium-tritium (DT) fusion observation. As described in the article published in Physical ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- When I was younger, my twin brother made a book cover for his physics book. On that cover, he wrote "Book Of Magic" on it. Mike was sort of right. Physics and magic can go hand in ...

College professors these days face an ever-higher bar to grab the attention of their students, forced to compete with the stimuli of smartphones and laptops in large lecture halls. But when your ...

The most beautiful experiment in physics, according to a poll of Physics World readers, is the interference of single electrons in a Young’s double slit. Robert P Crease reports Simply beautiful – the ...

When two sheets of carbon atoms are twisted to the “magic” angle of 1.1 degrees, many properties of their electrons abruptly change, and the material — known as magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene — ...