X-ray beams aren't used just by doctors to see inside your body and tell whether you have a broken bone. More powerful beams ...

Gold truly deserves to be called a precious metal. Now, scientists have found a way to extract gold from e-waste using ...

On Tuesday the field of quantum mechanics received a thoughtful 100th-birthday present from the Royal Swedish Academy of ...

Discover the physics behind stamps sticking to envelopes, from fundamental forces to Van der Waals interactions, explained concisely.

Nobel Prize winners show how superconducting circuits can exhibit quantum behavior, leading to transformative technologies.

John Clarke, John Martinis and Michel H. Devoret will share this year’s physics Nobel for their discovery in the mid-1980s ...

Think of it this way: if you roll a ball toward a wall, it will bounce back. That's normal physics. But in the quantum world, ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists – a Briton, a Frenchman and an American – for their ...

Low nitrogen availability is the number one limitation to plant growth in most ecosystems. Plants in the bean family and other closely related families evolved a symbiotic relationship with bacteria ...

In a new study, scientists have shown that chemical receptors that plants use to recognize nitrogen-fixing bacteria have developed the same function independently on at least three separate occasions ...

An international team of scientists led by Le Phuong Hoang and Giuseppe Mercurio from European XFEL has unveiled a new way to ...