Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have proven that the Carnot principle, a central law of thermodynamics, does ...

According to the researchers, Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. He developed his principle, the ...

The weak nuclear force doesn't play by the normal rules — and, in fact, it breaks one of the biggest rules of all.

In a study published in Nature Communications, a research team demonstrates the all-electrical control of quantum ...

MIT physicists improved the stability of optical atomic clocks by reducing “quantum noise” — a fundamental measurement ...

After discussing the emergence of nuclear physics, Close goes on to talk about the Allies’ development of the nuclear bomb. A ...

Earlier, the superconducting plasma experimental device JT-60SA achieved a plasma volume of 160 cubic meters. This ...

The results are an important stress test for theories and future experiments in atomic physics. 1.97007 femtometre (quadrillionths of a metre): That’s how unimaginably tiny the radius of the atomic ...

MIT researchers found that a hidden atomic order can persist in metals even after they undergo extreme processing. For ...

Atomic and molecular physics is a discipline at the heart of understanding matter at its most fundamental level. Over the past century, pioneering experiments and theoretical breakthroughs have ...

A lead halide material can detect and image single gamma-ray photons with both high-spatial and high-energy resolution ...

According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important ...