MIT scientists used radium monofluoride atom to observe electrons entering atomic nuclei, revealing new details of nuclear magnetism.

Having good neighbors can be very valuable—even in the atomic world. A team of Amsterdam physicists was able to determine an ...

Far-from-equilibrium dynamics controls a broad range of processes in nature and technology, from celestial events to atoms.

Qubits differ from classical bits, which are coded as only 0 or 1. A qubit can be a combination of both 0 and 1 simultaneously. One way to think of it is as a coin spinning between a 0 and a 1 axis.

Within a modest engineering laboratory at Duke University, a new type of researcher is quietly at work next to an optical ...

Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

The U.S. stopped testing nuclear weapons over three decades ago and all other countries followed suit. If we resume testing, ...

Researchers have created a more energy dense storage material for iron-based batteries. The breakthrough could also improve ...

In a metal like copper, however, the outer electrons swim around freely and are shared by all the atoms. That’s why ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

What color is an atom? Since atoms are smaller than the wavelength of visible light, we can’t see them directly - but they ...