From punch card-operated looms in the 1800s to modern cellphones, if an object has an "on" and an "off" state, it can be used ...

The new material could be key to finally building a successful fusion reactor.

You have important data that you need to keep safe. A USB flash drive seems to be the perfect solution. But how long do they ...

The photoelectric effect, first explained by Albert Einstein in 1905, laid the foundation for quantum mechanics. It occurs when high-energy light strikes atoms, releasing electrons. This phenomenon is ...

The Anderson transition is a phase transition that occurs in disordered systems, which entails a shift from a diffusive state ...

The short answer is; no. We will never see atoms using visible light, simply because the wavelength of visible light (around 400 to 700 nanometers) is larger than the size of an atom (around 0.1 to ...

Researchers at Fudan University in Shanghai have developed a technology that could dramatically extend the life span of ...

Brave New World is about to hit cinemas, bringing with it the gamma-ray-powered Red Hulk. Here's what you need to know about ...

In the search for elusive particles called neutrinos, researchers are stringing thousands of detectors in the depths of the ...

Researchers have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors can also be used as highly accurate particle detectors, and they have found the optimal nanowire size for high detection ...

For the first time, researchers have been able to measure the quantum state of electrons ejected from atoms that have absorbed high-energy light pulses. This is thanks to a new measurement technique ...