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

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

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

Plenty, because we aren’t so different from wheat and yeast The periodic table sorts 118 elements into rows and columns. Two dozen of these are manmade, the rest are building blocks of everything ...

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 ...

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

A new donation has allowed access to resources for helping residents prepare their homes for the winter. Atoms Energy donated ...

The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so ...

Kinetic energy has to do with the motion of an object—the faster it’s moving, the more kinetic energy it has. If you take a ...

The subatomic particles called neutrinos are famously elusive. But an unconventional trick could make a laser beam of the aloof particles.

Earth’s radiation can send some molecules spinning or vibrating, which is what makes them greenhouse gases. This infographic ...