Alchemy wasn’t just about turning lead into gold—it was a blend of philosophy, mysticism, and early chemistry that laid the ...

Nuclear-powered alchemy could even be key to transitioning the world away from fossil fuels, according to one San Francisco ...

DENVER — An urgent call comes in from the White House. But the recipient is skeptical: They need a way to verify that the message comes from the purported location. Quantum physics has a solution.

Loss, nostalgia and grief are among the most powerful inspirations for artistic creation, catalyzing work that arises from real urgency. All of us, artists or not, yearn to process the apparently ...

You may recall the speed/thrash/crossover metal band known as Carnivore — you know, the one that had Peter Steele in it before he went off to do Type O Negative. Over the years, Carnivore got back ...

In July 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Europe triumphantly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, the long-sought linchpin of the subatomic world. Interacting with Higgs ...

Once upon a time, transmutation of the elements was a really big deal. Alchemists drove their patrons near to bankruptcy chasing the philosopher’s stone to no avail, but at least we got chemistry out ...

On October 8, 2024, the field of physics was plunged into controversy. That day, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for discoveries not involving black holes, cosmology, or strange new subatomic ...

Prize awarded for developing 'next generation of quantum technology' 'I'm completely stunned,' says UC Berkeley professor Quantum technology ubiquitous in everyday electronics Physics is second prize ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden ‒ U.S.-based scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for "experiments that revealed quantum physics in action," paving the way ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an ...