Every time you check the time on your phone, make an online transaction, or use a navigation app, you are depending on the ...

The latest optical atomic clocks use faster atoms such as ytterbium, which tick up to 100 trillion times per second. However, their stability has been restricted by quantum noise, ...

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 ...

Quantum entanglement – once dismissed by Albert Einstein as "spooky action at a distance" – has long captured the public ...

Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were ...

Scientists have linked nuclear spins inside silicon chips, marking a leap toward scalable quantum computers. Engineers at ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to three scientists who made electrical circuits act like atoms - an experiment which ...

To the average citizen, nuclear science is a complicated, intimidating subject. From isotopes to void coefficients or fusion ...

A memory chip just 10 atoms thick has been tested in a lab and integrated into conventional chips, demonstrating a technology ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, ...

Data centers squander vast amounts of electricity, most of it as heat. The physical properties of diamond offer a potential ...