In a dark corner of a guest house in Helgoland, a diary by Werner Heisenberg has been discovered, describing how he developed ...

As few as five electrons in a semiconductor can exhibit collective behaviour, forming a “Coulomb liquid”, according to ...

In the beginning, most of the ideas you come up with turn out either to be flawed or have already been explored. The alternative is to stay in safe territory and do incremental work, which certainly ...

Cosmic filament The newly-discovered filament connecting four galaxy clusters, which are visible as bright spots at the bottom and top of the filament. A mottled band of purple stretches between these ...

While gluons are responsible for generating most of the visible mass in the universe, their role inside nuclei remains poorly ...

Students at the University of Manchester in the UK have created a 30,500-piece LEGO model of the iconic Lovell Telescope to ...

Minimizing vibration is usually achieved by doing experiments on optical tables, which are very large, heavy and rigid in ...

Researchers create a photonic engine that can manipulate microwave and optical signals and convert the signals between the two domains ...

A computational paradigm that can accurately simulate interactions between powerful laser beams and quantum fluctuations in a ...

Occupational transition network Graphical visualization of the weighted and directed labour market network in France derived from the transition probability matrix, computed from data spanning 2012 to ...

An ultrasensitive small-animal PET scanner can image the entire body of a rat with sub-second temporal resolution ...

Rare star system This is the first time that a short-life binary consisting of a neutron star and a helium star has been detected. (Courtesy: Bureau of International Cooperation, Chinese Academy of ...