Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atoms thick by crushing them at a high ...

Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, a physicist who studies 2D materials at the University of California, Irvine, likens the ...

Dr. Sarbmeet Kanwal plans to discuss how the Horn Antenna in Holmdel led to the Big Bang theory at a talk at the county ...

What makes matter stable? Why are atoms as they are? Why do different materials vary in their properties, such as electrical conductivity, density, melting temperature or light-absorption spectra?

Scientist Stephen Jesse will speak Tuesday at Friends of ORNL on "Building Materials and Devices with Atomic Precision: Perils and Promise" ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers are working to move cold atom quantum experiments and applications from the laboratory tabletop ...

As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous ...

For over a century, physicists have grappled with one of the most profound questions in science: How do the rules of quantum ...

A new study in Physical Review Letters has used atomic clocks to study relativistic effects in interacting quantum systems.

These results suggest that similar reactions between helium and iron may have occurred within Earth’s core shortly after its formation, trapping much of the primordial helium-3 in the material that ...

Sheets of metal just two atoms thick can be produced by squashing molten droplets at great pressure between two sapphires. The researchers who developed the process say the unusual materials could ...

Zeolites, crystalline materials widely used in the petrochemical industry, serve as pivotal catalysts in the production of ...