If you think of a single atom as a grain of sand, then a wavelength of visible light—which is a thousand times larger than ...

Caroline Steel investigates the immortality of atoms by travelling to CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory located along the border of France and Switzerland. There, theoretical ...

In a new study, the team posits that “cosmic knots” – topologically stable tangles in spacetime – emerged in the very early universe. These may have collapsed in ways that favored matter over ...

Real particles are lumps of energy that can be "seen" or detected by appropriate instruments; this feature is what makes them ...

Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) are fascinating states of matter that emerge when atoms or molecules are cooled to extremely ...

New device emits photons in telecom fiber band from the start, so it avoids a separate converter that can waste photons.

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

Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were previously too close together to look like anything but a blob ...

Researchers develop a simple method to build stable, atom-thick metal layers using tiny defects in carbon, enabling efficient use of metals across technologies. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Using metals in ...

DARPA leverages Rydberg atoms extreme electromagnetic sensitivity to create compact quantum RF sensors, replacing large ...

Stephen L. Levy receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. He is affiliated with CyteQuest, Inc. Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who ...

On Wednesday, the Nobel Prize Committee honored three researchers for their role in developing MOFs: Richard Robson for ...