The sixth annual competition showcases scientific microscopic imaging, illuminating tiny parts of nature, from individual ...

At that speed, it would take Voyager 1 about 500 million years to reach the center of the Milky Way. Based on those numbers, the likelihood of human beings ever engaging in interstellar travel is ...

In a recent paper in Nature, a team of scientists led by Kimihiko Nakajima, an astronomer at the Kanazawa University, Japan, ...

It's been 37 years since scientists first demonstrated the ability to move single atoms, suggesting the possibility of designing materials atom by atom to customize their properties. Today there are ...

A speck of metal containing thousands of atoms has no business behaving like a ghost. Yet in a vacuum chamber at the ...

Flecks of minerals captured in diamonds show hidden connections between Earth’s surface and its deep interior Nester Korolev ...

Long-held assumptions tell us that atoms with the same number of protons, neutrons and electrons are indistinguishable, but ...

Before trinitite, the only known naturally formed quasicrystal came from meteorite fragments, likely produced during a ...

High-energy cosmic rays, 10 million times more powerful than particles accelerated in Earth's strongest atom smasher, may ...

Samples of "trinitite" created during the world’s first nuclear bomb test in 1945 contain unique crystals never seen before.

Despite being the most abundant particles in the universe, neutrinos are notoriously difficult to detect. Could launching a ...

Worlds this small and distant are thought to be too cold and have too little surface gravity to hold onto gases. But the findings suggest that icy, rocky objects in the solar system's outer reaches ar ...