Scientists have developed a supercooled sensor that delivers full radioactivity profiles without chemical tracers.

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Atomic clocks and our computer networks are the new, far superior form of time measurement, but we’re forcing them to keep in sync with this older form of measurement,” remarks Dr. David Gozzard, an ...

Researchers have demonstrated that by using argon plasma, metal atoms can be dispersed and guided to desired positions. This new strategy ensures that ...

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The question of where atoms come from requires a lot of physics to be answered completely – and even then, physicists only have good guesses to explain how some atoms are formed.

Cosmic radiation occasionally contains enormous amounts of energy, but we don’t know why or where this radiation comes from.

The IPAS team with the quantum clocks Optical quantum clocks developed at the University of Adelaide have been proven to out-perfom GPS ...

Physicists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have a novel plan to uncover an unknown fifth force of nature long theorized to exist ...

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