In a groundbreaking leap toward cleaner, more affordable energy, scientists in France held a fusion reaction steady for over ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

Khalili reviews Quantum Drama, a new book by physicist and science writer Jim Baggott and the late historian of science John ...

Highly charged heavy ions form a very suitable experimental field for investigating quantum electrodynamics (QED), the ...

Scientists have long been fascinated by how light interacts with matter. At the heart of this curiosity are photons—particles ...

Five years on from the first UK lockdown, the origin of the virus is still hotly contested. Dr Alina Chan was the scientist who was labelled a conspiracist when she went against the official view it ...

Learn more. In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in the mathematical realm known as group theory. At first her ...

Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ−CERCA), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Països Catalans 16, 43007 Tarragona, Spain ...

ABSTRACT: We establish quantum circuit complexity as a fundamental physical observable and prove that it satisfies an uncertainty relation with energy, analogous to Heisenberg’s canonical uncertainty ...

A team at the UQ School of Mathematics and Physics has combined theory and experiments to show that nuclear polarisation does not limit studies of muonic atoms. Co-author Dr Odile Smits said the ...

University of Queensland researchers have made a breakthrough in muonic atom research, clearing the way for new nuclear physics experiments. A team at the UQ School of Mathematics and Physics has ...

This early-stage finding is at odds with the current theory which was developed in ... points in the history of the Universe. Several experiments were built to find answers, including the Dark ...