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 ...

New device emits photons in telecom fiber band from the start, so it avoids a separate converter that can waste photons.

MIT researchers double the accuracy of optical atomic clocks by reducing quantum noise with an innovative laser technique.

Tungsten alloys, specifically, provide "grain boundaries [that] serve as sinks for radiation defects," per Nature. Meanwhile, ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

Just published in Nature, the Google team’s findings demonstrate what it says is the first-ever verifiable capability by a ...

For the first time, a team at BESSY II has succeeded in demonstrating the one-dimensional electronic properties of a material ...

Confining and rotating extremely cold atoms or molecules within atomic “Ferris wheels” made from laser light could test ...

Google's Quantum Echoes algorithm, developed on the Willow quantum chip, operates 13,000 times faster than traditional ...

CEO Sundar Pichai said the tech giant's quantum computing chip has achieved the “first-ever verifiable quantum advantage.” ...

Researchers have unveiled ice XXI, a new form of ice that's solid at room temperatures when subjected to immense pressure.

A couple of weeks back I posted an answer to a question from a Twitter follower’s child, who asked “How Strong Is Space?” That was fun, so here’s another kid-question answered, this one from my own ...