Global phase spectroscopy' makes ultraprecise optical timekeepers even more precise Researchers at MIT say they have ...

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

A team of physicists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, the Center for New Technologies at the ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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