A new discovery reveals how a mysterious quantum spin excitation — a solitary spinon — can exist alone, hinting at advances in quantum technologies. Scientists from the Faculty of Physics at the Unive ...

A new study led by University of Houston researchers, in collaboration with planetary scientists worldwide, suggests Uranus ...

There's a new record holder for the most accurate clock in the world. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and ...

The laser beam traveled 3.6 kilometers (over 2 miles) via fiber optic links to NIST, where a frequency comb (acting as a “ruler for light”) allowed the aluminum ion clock’s laser to adopt its superior ...

IMAGINE a very thin rubber band morphing into a donut.This transformation, known as the “birth of a torus,” is used to mathematically describe the behavior of systems undergoing transitions.

Recent findings confirm the conservation of orbital angular momentum in single-photon interactions, reinforcing fundamental ...

T-symmetry offers insights into the nature of time, revealing how fundamental physical laws remain invariant under time ...

Scientists have used ultracold atoms to successfully demonstrate a novel method of particle acceleration that could unlock a ...

Physicists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have a novel plan to uncover an unknown fifth force of nature long theorized to exist ...

This progress means that, for the first time, complicated astrophysical events like shocks and turbulence can be studied in a ...

Quantum computers hold incredible promise, but one major challenge still stands in the way: their struggle to correct errors ...