In ‘A Place Both Wonderful and Strange’ (Running Press, Feb.), the entertainment and culture writer peeks behind the red ...

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

A historic experiment has shattered the legendary "nobility" of gold, revealing a new chemical reality that changes everything we know about the universe.

Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.

For the modern technology leader, the quest for peak performance has traditionally been a matter of chemistry, an endless ...

Adani Power has established Adani Atomic Energy Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary, to generate, transmit, and distribute nuclear power. This move follows the recent passage of the SHANTI Bill, ...

How some of the world’s most precise clocks missed a very small beat. By Mike Ives and Adeel Hassan Time appeared to skip a beat last week when some of the world’s most accurate clocks were affected ...

Reports trickling out of Russia last week said that Stalin had taken three steps on the atomic bomb: ¶ He told Scientist Peter Kapitza to “build whatever you need” for basic atomic research. ¶ He ...

The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth's atmosphere. As a result of that intense pressure, materials can adopt unexpected structures and properties.

In the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the language that launched a billion devices. On ...

Scientists use scanning tunneling microscopy to understand how a material's electronic or magnetic properties relate to its structure on the atomic scale. When using this technique, however, they can ...