Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" ...
In this video, we explore the origins of the first atom, tracing back to the big bang, where immense energy condensed to form ...
If you think of a single atom as a grain of sand, then a wavelength of visible light—which is a thousand times larger than ...
"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...
Physicists have been chasing one of the universe’s strangest mysteries—neutrinos, nearly invisible particles that zip through ...
This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...
Researchers at Tohoku University have shown that linking quantum sensors in optimized networks can dramatically boost their sensitivity. Uncovering dark matter, the invisible substance thought to bind ...