Entangled atoms, separated in space, are giving scientists a powerful new way to measure the world with stunning precision.

Researchers at the University of Basel and the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel have demonstrated how quantum mechanical ...

For many years, cesium atomic clocks have been reliably keeping time around the world. But the future belongs to even more accurate clocks: optical atomic clocks. In a few years' time, they could ...

The Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, sits about 2,000 light-years from Earth. It is a planetary nebula—a misleading ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

For years, physicists have mapped the stability of atomic nuclei with remarkable confidence. The periodic table, with its ...

ALICE collaboration identifies three-phase process that allows particles to form despite energetically unfavourable ...

Known as “islands of inversion,” these odd regions are found among a sea of normal nuclei. Now, a new island may have been ...

This breakthrough in plasma stability brings the dream of endless energy even closer.

Advent is a season filled with rich Catholic traditions, but a slightly lesser-known one is growing in popularity among younger Catholics. The ancient liturgy of the Rorate Caeli Advent Mass honors ...

A person of interest has been taken into custody in connection with a deadly shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, police said early Sunday. Two students were killed and nine ...

Detailed replicas of the fictional Pip-Boy and T-51b Power Armor helmet greet me as I peruse the compact but densely arranged corridor just past the edge of the National Atomic Testing Museum’s gift ...