The microscopic processes taking place in superconductors are difficult to observe directly. Researchers at the RPTU ...

Imagine a light switch so small it is made from just a few atoms, ...

An atomic clock that could transform deep-space travel has successfully completed its first test run in space. NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock, which launched on a satellite in June 2019, outperformed ...

Silver-based atomic switches that create stable electrical connections between individual molecules and electrodes have been ...

The theory was developed by Neils Bohr's great-grandson. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The use of a special type of atom could ...

Yuri Ralchenko led one of the oldest teams at the National Institute for Standards and Technology. The fate of some ...

THE Department of Science and Technology–Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (DOST-PNRI) concluded the Atomic Energy Week ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, spent years wrestling with the conflict between his science and the dictates of his conscience. In part because he publicly expressed his concerns ...

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At Brookhaven, L.I., a dragline excavator manned by a nuclear physicist broke ground last week for the first chain-reacting pile to be built in the U.S. in peacetime.* Financed by a $10 million ...

The atom bomb ended the war and changed the world. What did the monster do to the men who had fathered it? Last week, more than six months after the first bomb flattened Hiroshima, the scientists who ...