Physicists propose that high-energy photon jets from collapsing stars may be secret factories of heavy elements like plutonium, challenging traditional theories and possibly explaining strange cosmic ...

An alternative periodic table of elements focusing on highly charged ions reveals new science that could support the quest ...

Physicists in the UK have created the first-ever laboratory version of a black hole bomb, replicating a decades-old ...

Clocks on Earth are ticking a bit more regularly thanks to NIST-F4, a new atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards ...

Crystals—from sugar and table salt to snowflakes and diamonds—don't always grow in a straightforward way. New York University ...

For the first time, physicists have created a "black hole bomb" in the lab, providing evidence for the "Zel’dovich effect" ...

Many atomic nuclei have a magnetic field similar to that of Earth. However, directly at the surface of a heavy nucleus such ...

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The weird paradox of Schrödinger’s cat has found a lasting popularity. What does it mean for the future of quantum physics?

The achievement represents a major step forward, potentially unlocking innovations across numerous fields that rely on ...

For a summary of the theory just previous to the development of the new methods the reader is referred to a lecture of the author, Atomic Theory and Mechanics,œ published In this periodical ...

The problem is that the half-reaction that produces oxygen, known as the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), is difficult and inefficient and takes more energy than predicted by theory. “It should ...