Physics
Physicists take a major step toward making a nuclear clock
By tweaking the energy of a thorium nucleus with a laser, scientists demonstrated a key step to building clocks based on the physics of atomic nuclei.
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By tweaking the energy of a thorium nucleus with a laser, scientists demonstrated a key step to building clocks based on the physics of atomic nuclei.
The acoustic qualities of instruments may have influenced variations in musical scales and preferred harmonies.
Superconducting temperatures have risen by about 250 degrees since the 1970s, but are still too cold to enable practical technologies.
Trees could act as antennas that pick up radio waves of ultra-high energy neutrinos interactions, one physicist proposes.
Physicists grapple with their role as stewards of the United States’ aging nuclear weapons in the new book by Sarah Scoles.
After big contributions in accelerator physics, Sekazi Mtingwa has been focused on opening science for everyone.
The first fusion experiment to produce an energy excess required meticulous planning and also revealed a long-predicted heating phenomenon.
Nanostructures in a blueberry’s waxy coating make it look blue, despite having dark red pigments — and no blue ones — in its skin, a new study reports.
Science News reviews Roma Agrawal's book, which updates the classic list of simple machines and reveals the heart and soul of engineering.
Quantum electrodynamics, which describes how charged particles and light interact, works in the strong fields around highly ionized uranium atoms.
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