The Langlands programme has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up ...

The Trinity test—the detonation of the world's first nuclear bomb—was conducted 80 years ago as part of the Manhattan Project.

A team of scientists led by expert Raúl Jiménez, ICREA researcher at the University of Barcelona's Institute of Cosmos ...

For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...

The physics of the innermost shells of atoms is qualitatively different in several respect from that of outer electrons. For single deep holes, correlation effects are slight, while the effects of ...

The feud that sparked the electrification of the world ...

Atomic Theory and the, Description of Nature. 1: Four Essays, with an Introductory Survey. By Niels Bohr. Pp. vi + 119. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1934.) 6 ...

The partitioning of electron spin density among atoms in a material gives atomic spin moments (ASMs), which are important for understanding magnetic properties. We compare ASMs computed using ...