Mercury is a metal, yet it has some weird physical properties, including being a liquid at room temperature.

Sometimes a visually compelling metaphor is all you need to get an otherwise complicated idea across. In the summer of 2001, a Tulane physics professor named John P.

Researchers developed a lignin derived hard carbon anode for sodium ion batteries with 90.6 percent initial Coulombic ...

An international team of researchers has synthesized a carbon chain molecule with a never-before-seen electronic twist and ...

A single layer of atoms may seem too thin to meaningfully interact with light, yet materials like tungsten disulfide are reshaping what is possible in nanophotonics. Researchers have now found a way ...

A pore smaller than one nanometer reads peptide sequences amino acid by amino acid, pinpointing single-site Alzheimer's ...

Researchers set a Guinness record with a tiny QR code, exploring ceramics for long-lasting, zero-energy digital data storage.

When you toss a coin, you put it into a higher-energy state until it falls back down again. It can then end up in one of two ...

A team at IBM Research has assembled a strange new ring-shaped molecule that bends around like a more complicated Möbius strip ...

Phonons are the collective vibrations that move through a solid. They can be thought of as waves traveling across the atomic ...

Rydberg atoms are atoms with one or more outer electrons excited to very high energy levels, which interact very strongly with each other. These atoms are widely used to run quantum simulations and ...

Physicists have discovered a surprising new “Island of Inversion” in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number ...