Atoms measure roughly 0.1 nanometers across, a scale so small that scientists spent more than six decades developing ...

An “echo” that arrives before you finish speaking sounds like a glitch. In quantum hardware, that kind of self-interference ...

A trial led by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has supported the development of next-generation atomic ...

Immediately after the Big Bang boomed, the Universe was a trillion-degree 'soup' of unimaginably dense plasma. In a breakthrough experiment, researchers have found the first evidence that this exotic ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of medicine's most powerful diagnostic tools. But certain tissues deep inside the ...

India is sitting on a goldmine of strategic minerals inside discarded smartphones. Explore the science behind turning e-waste ...

Outside of winter, chronic itch affects millions of people with conditions including eczema, psoriasis, and kidney disease. Understanding the precise biological mechanisms that regulate itch—including ...

A persistent asymmetry in fusion exhaust has challenged researchers for years. New simulations show that plasma core rotation, working together with cross-field drifts, determines where particles land ...

X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) are particle accelerators that create pulses of light of extremely short duration, similar to that of some lasers used in eye surgery. Combined with the X-ray energy ...

For those of us who weren't paying attention, over the last few years, scientists around the world have been one-upping each ...

Gold prices, which briefly fell at the start of the year, have risen again and surpassed $5,100 per troy ounce on the 20th.

Despite the medical potential and commercial value of radium, Madam Curie and her husband, Pierre Curie, chose not to patent their discoveries.