One of the great successes of 20th-century physics was the quantum mechanical description of solids. This allowed scientists to understand for the first time how and why certain materials conduct ...
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Researchers at ETH Zurich have shown, for the first time with very high time and spatial resolution, that electrons in ...
Scientists reveal how two unstable nuclei trigger neutron star explosions and power intense X-ray bursts across the universe.
A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...
The earliest acoustic vibrations in the cosmos weren’t exactly sound – they travelled at half the speed of light and there ...
Scientists have found a way to see ultrafast molecular interactions inside liquids using an extreme laser technique once ...
Drilling at the Topaz Project near Babbitt detected helium-3 around 14.5 ppb—comparable to Apollo lunar samples—within deep ...