The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth in May 2024. For several days, wave after wave of high-energy charged ...

Researchers at Tohoku University have achieved a significant advancement in opto-magnetic technology, observing an ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

In recent years, there have been attempts to describe the inside of a proton using quantum information tools, with partial ...

Physicists know from previous experiments that what happens at the nuclear scale to protons and neutrons also affects their ...

By twisting layers of graphene, researchers discovered a unique electronic crystal where electrons freeze in place yet allow ...

Low-density lipoproteins (LDL) - commonly known as bad cholesterol - have long been on scientists' radar as a major contributor to heart disease.

Electrons have a hidden feature — spin — that could revolutionize technology. Magnets can control it, but researchers are now ...

Scientists have found an elusive third form of magnetism that could help solve a longstanding puzzle about superconductors.

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...

For the first time, scientists have measured the shape of an electron in solids, opening the door to advances in quantum materials.