Earth’s radiation can send some molecules spinning or vibrating, which is what makes them greenhouse gases. This infographic explains how relatively few heat-trapping molecules can have a planetary ...

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...

A new calculation shows how five atoms interact in the Efimov effect. It marks a major leap in quantum physics. Matter behaves weirdly at the quantum scale, one of the strangest examples being the ...

A strange kind of geometry governs how particles move inside matter. Now, for the first time, physicists have uncovered its ...

As a result of the tetrahedral symmetry of the lattice, a diamond crystal typically contains NV centers in four orientations.

Libby Heaney’s Growler (2024) is a glass sculpture that looks anything but. Despite its crystalline surface, it appears as if viscous, gummy and glutinous as it sags and drips down the side of its ...

The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving ...

By mixing together quantum and classical data, scientists successfully transmitted quantum signals using Verizon’s fiber ...

In an article published in Communications Physics, researchers from the Université libre de Bruxelles and the Institute for ...

A micrograph showing the operation of a ‘conveyor belt’ of atom arrays. At each step, a fresh array is created at the bottom, ...

The true “informational age” of the cosmos may be 62 billion years, not just the 13.8 billion years of our current expansion.