For more than a century, schoolbook physics has divided matter into neat categories like solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. A ...

Look across the night sky and it is easy to think the universe is mostly stars, galaxies and the planets that orbit them. Yet ...

An experiment with ultracold atoms reveals that a strongly driven quantum system doesn’t always heat up as expected. In daily life, doing work on something over and over usually makes it warmer. You ...

A simple explanation of dark matter and antimatter, how they differ, how scientists study them, and why both are important to understanding the universe.

Ultracold atoms have successfully mimicked a fundamental quantum effect normally found in electronic circuits.

Researchers accidentally formed gold hydride under extreme pressure, challenging gold’s long-held inert reputation and ...

Scientists have developed a new technique that doubles the amount of hydrogen produced when splitting water molecules with ...

For the first time, scientists have observed the iconic Shapiro steps, a staircase-like quantum effect, in ultracold atoms.

Scientists accidentally create gold hydride under extreme pressure, revealing unexpected chemistry and insights into ...

Researchers at the ArQuS Laboratory of the University of Trieste (Italy) and the National Institute of Optics of the Italian ...

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

Researchers discover that embedding iridium atoms inside catalyst crystals instead of on the surface dramatically improves ...