During Cold War-era plutonium production at what is now the Department of Energy's Hanford Site in Washington State, aluminum ...

The word magic is not often used in the context of science. But in the early 1930s, scientists discovered that some atomic ...

An experiment found photons can exit a material before entering it: a paradoxical evidence of "negative time".

The word magic is not often used in the context of science. But in the early 1930s, scientists discovered that some atomic nuclei—the center part of atoms, which make up all matter—were more stable ...

What have you missed on Hackaday this week? Elliot Williams and Al Williams compare notes on their favorites from the week, ...

What’s fun is that this group delay can theoretically be in the negative. The team used light whose frequency is close to the ...

In a quiet lab at Northwestern University, a team of scientists peered into a high-powered microscope, holding their breath.

Seeking to improve the tokamak fusion reactor known as ITER, researchers have found a way to stop rogue tungsten atoms from ...

Phenomena such as the Quantum Hall effect are closely linked to superconductivity, and the idea of transferring electrical ...

Until this year, the Nobel Prize for physics has typically gone to pioneers in that field, like last year’s winners who used ...

A major breakthrough has been achieved in the development of diamond-based quantum computers. Quantum computers and quantum ...