In 1931, Harvey Elliott White developed a device that traced out the shapes of electron clouds by approximating solutions to ...

CERN’s CLEAR facility investigates novel medical applications of electron beams and the resilience of electronics in space. A ...

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

Researchers from Japan have discovered a unique Hall effect resulting from deflection of electrons due to "in-plane ...

Graphene is stronger than steel and a better conductor that copper, making the two-dimensional material of particular ...

For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current theories, matter and its counterpart, ...

Nagaland University's quantum fractal breakthrough spotlights Northeast India in the world of research, aiding India's National Quantum Mission.

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A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants ...

Surprisingly, they found that only around 10% of a quake’s energy causes the physical shaking most people associate with ...