As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing ...
For more than a century, physics has been built on two great theories. Einstein's general relativity explains gravity as the ...
In January I wrote a piece titled “ 5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know .” Lots of you weighed in with your own ...
Plutonium has captured the attention of scientists since its discovery in the early 1940s. This enigmatic element has an ...
The team performed high-resolution particle simulations using the KAIROS supercomputer at the Korea Institute of Fusion ...
Who will be the first to feed fusion power into the grid? From Germany to China, the United States to France, more than 50 ...
Irish physicist William Rowan Hamilton’s pioneering work contained hints of the enigmatic wave–particle duality that governs ...

The Peaceful Atom

Gillian Schutte follows the transformative journey of the atom from a symbol of destruction to a beacon of sustainable energy ...
Oh. It’s the people from the Nobel Peace Prize. Mr President, they say you’re this year’s winner. He has 10 minutes to alert ...
Researchers at the University of South Wales (UNSW) have found a way to make atomic nuclei communicate through electrons, allowing them to achieve entanglement at scales used in today''s computer ...
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How to Measure Nothing Better

Cold atoms could also potentially measure much lower vacuum pressures than ion gauges can. The current lowest pressure they’ve reliably measured is around 10 -9 Pa, and NIST scientists are working on ...