Living matter remains the quintessential puzzle of biological sciences, a question that embodies the intricate complexity and stunning diversity of life forms. A new study suggests that one viable ...

Work reveals new ways to understand and manipulate electrons in materials. MIT physicists, in collaboration with colleagues, ...

A team of physicists and engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered a new way to measure the orientation ...

The tale of splitting the atom isn't just about America—it's a journey from New Zealand to Manchester, led by the brilliant ...

Many of his subjects were fashionable, bourgeois women, whom he depicted in an array of settings that reflected the many facets of modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored ...

He and Born had made a series of detailed calculations of the helium atom ... path that modern physics had taken. Most physicists were content to do just that, and to put the theory to good ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Coupled cluster theory in the standard formulation is unable to correctly describe ...

A new high-tech atomic clock has been developed by scientists at the top-secret Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). It is expected to be a leap forward for intelligence, surveillance ...

Troops on military operations will soon be able to use a British-made atomic clock built with quantum technology instead of GPS for the first time. The quantum clock, which in the next five years ...