Florida State University scientists have engineered a new crystal that forces atomic magnets to swirl into complex, repeating ...

America's national security relies in part on the U.S. Navy's nuclear-powered submarines, which can operate more than 800 ...

A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers linked atomic-scale features to efficient heat-to-electricity conversion, offering ...

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The ...

For three decades, one quiet crystal has sat at the center of a fierce argument about how exotic superconductors really work.

An experiment with ultracold atoms reveals that a strongly driven quantum system doesn’t always heat up as expected. In daily ...

The United Nations rarely moves fast on disarmament. This year, though, it did something unusual. On November 6, the General Assembly’s First Committee, where states debate over questions of ...