Dec. 12, 2024 — Stars similar to the Sun produce a gigantic outburst of radiation on average about once every hundred years per star. Such superflares release more energy than a trillion ...

Mar. 25, 2025 — Researchers have determined that six gas valves provide the best protection against plasma disruptions in SPARC, a next-generation, experimental fusion system. By refining the ...

The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a hearing on Thursday — titled “If I Could Turn Back Time: Should We Lock The Clock?” — to “examine the various issues ...

President Trump on Wednesday announced a 90-day pause on most of his new tariffs, and a lowering of the "reciprocal tariff" rate to 10%, effective immediately, he said on Truth Social. The U.S ...

Normally, these spins quickly lose coherence when they interact with other particles or absorb certain types of light, which limits their usefulness in technologies like quantum sensors or atomic ...

U.S. stocks ended sharply lower Thursday with the blue-chip Dow off more than 1,000 points as investors worried about a trade war with China. The U.S. tariff rate on Chinese imports now ...

Imagine you work for a hypothetical gene synthesis company, one of dozens around the world that manufacture tiny strands of custom nucleic acids like DNA for customers in academia and industry. DNA ...

Stellantis NV (STLAM.MI), opens new tab said on Thursday it was temporarily laying off 900 workers at five U.S. facilities and pausing production at one assembly plant each in Mexico and Canada, after ...

Atomic clocks record time using microwaves to measure the frequency of quantum vibrations of electrons. They are the basis upon which a second is defined. But there’s a new kid on the block ...

The quantum clock has been developed at the top-secret Defense Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). “This first trial of advanced atomic clock represents a significant achievement in the UK ...