A team of researchers is trying to bring order to electron movement inside fusion reactors so it can develop a nearly limitless energy source.

Protopasta unveiled a quantum dot filament at CES 2026 that glows in intense, vivid colors under UV light. Developed with ...

For the first time, a team of US researchers has used sensors containing highly excited Rydberg atoms to detect signals from ...

Phonons are the collective vibrations that move through a solid. They can be thought of as waves traveling across the atomic ...

Cottrell teacher-scholar award winner Meaghan Deegan balances cutting-edge research in synthetic compound stabilization with ...

The discovery of bright yet stable pigments is vanishingly rare, making them hugely valuable. Now chemist Mas Subramanian is unpicking the atomic code of colour and homing in on our most-wanted hue ...

The Schrödinger equation rewrote the rules of matter and forever changed the field of chemistry. Donald Truhlar, a chemist at the University of Minnesota, calls it the “greatest advance of the 20th ...

Scotch tape has been a household mainstay for nearly a century, but it still holds some scientific surprises. Researchers have discovered that the screeching sound emitted when one rapidly peels ...

In a new study ( Nature Physics, "Orbital Seebeck effect induced by chiral phonons" ), researchers developed the most ...

In chemistry, molecules with a "flat" geometry are often stable enough to support a wide range of reactions. But in the quantum world, that's not technically true.

The word “ atom ” is from the Greek word atomos, which means “uncuttable”. This is the smallest particle in the universe that behaves “normally”. Normal behaviour for a particular atom means that it ...

Scientists at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Heidelberg University have discovered a hypothesis indicating two major perspectives in modern quantum physics focusing on how a single unusual ...