Twisted materials—known as moiré structures—have revolutionized modern physics, emerging as today's "alchemy" by creating ...

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and ...

The universe follows predictable rules, behaving classically according to Einstein’s theory of general relativity. So, what ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in ...

An international research team led by Forschungszentrum Jülich has succeeded in visualizing magnetism inside solids with ...

Some of the faintest, coldest stars in the universe may be powered not by fusion—but by the annihilation of dark matter deep ...

Deep in the center of our galaxy, scientists believe a strange type of star may be quietly glowing—not from fusion like our ...

A giant gas planet comparable in size to Saturn exists around a small red dwarf star. The discovery is beyond the scope of conventional astronomy theory, and is making experts reconsider conventional ...

The latter especially has made very important contributions to our subject by his ingenious attempts to develop ideas about atomic constitution on the basis of the electron theory.

A new study shows entanglement can be reversed—if you plug in a quantum battery. The finding rewrites the rules of the ...

The ten stories in The Theory of Light and Matter are devoted – as so much American short fiction is – to the moment of change, the seemingly unimportant incident that reveals a hidden truth.