Different atoms and ions possess characteristic energy levels. Like a fingerprint, they are unique for each species. Among ...

Researchers at TU Wien have discovered a quantum system where energy and mass move with perfect efficiency. In an ultracold ...

Scientists demonstrated X-ray four-wave mixing to track correlated electron motion, revealing how energy and information move ...

Glassy materials are everywhere, with applications far exceeding windowpanes and drinking glasses. They range from bioactive ...

Commercial nuclear reactors all work pretty much the same way. Atoms of a radioactive material split, emitting neutrons.

Scientists at the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL have realised a long-pursued experimental goal in physics: to show how ...

Scientists discover water that's solid and liquid. Superionic ice found in lab could explain Uranus and Neptune's bizarre ...

Scientists examine how a little-studied catalytic phenomenon can have outsized effects on chemical efficiency and selectivity ...

Starlight and stardust are not enough to drive the powerful winds of giant stars, transporting the building blocks of life through our galaxy. That’s the conclusion of a new study published in ...

A colossal bar of iron hidden inside the Ring Nebula may be the ghostly remains of a planet destroyed by a dying star.

There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...