Blink and you might miss it, but if you keep your eye on the monitors in professor Sebastian Will's lab, you'll catch a ...

Why did they form at that time? Astronomers know from observing distant exploding stars that the size of the universe has been getting bigger since the Big Bang. When the hydrogen and helium atoms ...

A new method uses helium droplets combined with ultrashort laser pulses to trigger chemical reactions in a controlled way.

A team led by researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have found a new method to separate right- ...

Microsoft researchers believe they have found a way to use machine learning to push those limits for small molecules (arXiv 2025, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2506.14665).

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

In eusocial superorganisms like leafcutter ant colonies, labor is divvied up according to body shape and size, but University ...

Many heavy atoms form from a supernova explosion, the remnants of which are shown in this image. NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage ...

Atomic and molecular physics it the study of the properties, dynamics and interactions of the basic (but not fundamental) building blocks of matter. A crucial component of this is understanding ...

Graphene is a two-dimensional material consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb structure. Its properties include high strength and good conductivity of heat and ...

But scientists from National Taiwan University have made an exciting discovery: in a special ultra-thin material, electricity ...