A ‘quantum telephone’ connecting atomic nuclei could make practical quantum computers easier to build and use.

Scientists at Michigan State University have discovered how to use ultrafast lasers to wiggle atoms in exotic materials, ...

UNSW quantum engineers have created quantum entanglement between two distant atoms in silicon using electrons as a bridge.UNSW engineers have made a ...

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

Researchers at Michigan State University have figured out how to use a fast laser to wiggle atoms in a way that temporarily ...

Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were ...

Today we're looking at Atomic Force Microscopy! I built a "macro-AFM" to demonstrate the principles of an atomic force microscope, then we look at a real AFM (an nGauge AFM from ICSPI) and do a few ...

Today, materials scientist Peter Mullner answers a child’s question about magnets: ‘What are magnets made of, and how do they ...

The universe exists because matter and antimatter are not good friends. Is there a scientific reason why the universe exists?

Rubidium atoms that are chilled to extremely low temperatures could emit bursts of particles called neutrinos.

Matter gets weird at the quantum scale, and among the oddities is the Efimov effect, a state in which the attractive forces between three or more atoms bind them together, even as they are excited to ...

If you can’t find your BitLocker recovery key, this post will help you. BitLocker is a volume encryption feature in Windows that lets you encrypt an entire volume to protect your data. It provides a ...