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 ...

Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" ...

Researchers show electrical control of quantum interference in atomic spins on surfaces using a scanning tunnelling ...

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

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

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 ...

Quantum information in superconducting processors is stored as low-energy microwave photons, but transmitting this information over long distances to build a quantum ...

A team of UC Riverside engineers has discovered why a key solid-state battery material stays remarkably cool during operation ...

"They are the parents of all matter in the universe today, including our own bodies, while the knots can be thought of as our grandparents," physicist Yu Hamada explained.

Researchers at Fudan University have built the world’s first fully functional memory chip made from a material only a few ...

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 ...