A photon enters a cloud of atoms and emerges on the other side. When physicists calculate how long the atoms remained excited ...

In a single experiment, physicists have measured the "excess" emission of high-energy gamma rays from more than a dozen heavy, unstable atomic nuclei. Mapping the gamma-ray emissions of so many ...

Researchers at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin have developed a new method for trapping and controlling atoms near an ...

Science has a history of telling a flattering story about itself. It says the truth wins because the evidence wins, that you ...

Caltech researchers have created cold molecules containing the radioactive element radium for the first ...

In the early '90s, scientists encountered a particle so unusual, it seemed impossible. It is now called the OMG particle, and ...

Bruce Banks helped advance NASA's electric propulsion, spacecraft coatings, and atomic oxygen research, earning a record 39 ...

Neither matter nor force, paraparticles would be something else entirely. Fresh hints that they exist are raising hopes that ...

When Chinese drug developers need to see exactly how an experimental medicine binds to its target protein, or materials ...

As the demand for renewable energy grows, scientists are searching for better batteries that can store large amounts of ...

At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Q-NEXT collaborator Shannon Harvey develops quantum dots — a mass-producible type of ...