A proposed experiment that would involve trapping atoms on a two-layered laser grid could be used to study the mechanism behind high-temperature superconductivity. Developed by physicists in Germany ...

A team of more than 100 scientists recorded the cellular activity and mapped the structure in a cubic millimeter of ... methods of manipulating the nervous system are incredibly blunt instruments ...

In just the first 259 days of data collection, KATRIN, a beta-decay-based detector in Germany, has set the smallest upper ...

"The new model can account for both structure formation and stability, and the key observational properties of the expansion of the universe at large." ...

W hen most people think of shapes, they imagine a triangle, a rectangle, or maybe even a fancier- sounding rhombus or ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere. Among meteorites, one ...

Today's super-resolution microscopes have made it possible to observe the nanoscale world with unprecedented detail. However, they require fluorescent tags, which reveal structural details but provide ...

For decades, scientists have known that ordinary matter — everything made of atoms — accounts for just 15% of the universe’s matter. The rest is mysterious dark matter. But even that modest slice didn ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...

Superconductivity is a quantum property of materials entailing an electrical resistance of zero at very low temperatures. In ...

Quantum physics already feels like a puzzle, but now scientists have made it more literal. A team of mathematicians from the University of Colorado Boulder has designed a quantum Rubik's cube, with ...