Physicists have spent a century trying to reconcile the smooth fabric of spacetime in general relativity with the jittery quantum fields that govern particles, and gravity has stubbornly resisted ...

Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth.

Researchers are learning to flip light on and off one particle at a time, turning single photons into a controllable resource ...

Then, on November 25, teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, joined the inner and outer portions ...

Lithium-ion batteries (LiBs) remain the most widely used rechargeable batteries worldwide, due to their light weight, high ...

Later work by others built on this, showing that these energy levels are a fundamental part of how the universe works at the ...

Physicists have found a clever way to detect the elusive Unruh effect without extreme accelerations. By using atoms that emit light cooperatively between mirrors, acceleration subtly shifts when a ...

The ultimate goal of materials scientists is to design and create materials with precise structures and tailored properties.

The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.

Astronomers have found evidence for a possible first-of-its-kind "superkilonova," or a kilonova spurred by a supernova. Such ...

Normal matter – which makes up everything we see and touch – isn’t the only type of matter present in the universe.

Researchers have uncovered a method to purify a photon stream that is central to quantum circuitry. University of Iowa ...