Real particles are lumps of energy that can be "seen" or detected by appropriate instruments; this feature is what makes them ...

Researchers develop a simple method to build stable, atom-thick metal layers using tiny defects in carbon, enabling efficient use of metals across technologies. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Using metals in ...

Trapping ultracold atoms with laser light let researchers magnify and then image the wave functions of atoms that were previously too close together to look like anything but a blob ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics honors three quantum physicists—John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis—for their ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

By combining the rigid metal ions with soft organic linkers, MOFs span an area where inorganic chemistry’s focus on metals ...

The neutral-atom platform appears promising for scaling up quantum computers. To solve some of the toughest challenges in ...

Caroline Steel investigates the immortality of atoms by travelling to CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory located along the border of France and Switzerland. There, theoretical ...

To realize a practical quantum computer, it is thought that a million qubits are needed for 'error tolerance.' Until now, qubit arrays have only been built at the ...

On Wednesday, the Nobel Prize Committee honored three researchers for their role in developing MOFs: Richard Robson for ...

Inspired by an artist's stencils, researchers have developed atomic-level precision patterning on nanoparticle surfaces, ...