A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...

Using NASA’s IXPE, astronomers captured an unprecedented view of a white dwarf star actively feeding on material from a companion. The data revealed giant columns of ultra-hot gas shaped by the star’s ...

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

When scientists repeatedly drove a strongly interacting quantum system with laser “kicks,” they expected it to heat up and ...

Scientists have detected a surprisingly hot galaxy cluster dating back to the universe’s infancy. The cluster formed far ...

Researchers have built a new platform that produces ultrashort UV-C laser pulses and detects them at room temperature using ...

Researchers at TU Wien have discovered a quantum system where energy and mass move with perfect efficiency. In an ultracold ...

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly ...

Scientists are learning to engineer light in rich, multidimensional ways that dramatically increase how much information a ...

Living cells pay a hidden energy price not just to run chemical reactions, but to keep them on track and block all the ...

Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...