A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers linked atomic-scale features to efficient heat-to-electricity conversion, offering ...

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

Physicists are learning to treat light not as an untouchable beam that simply passes through matter, but as something that ...

The tiny atom, the basic building block of everything, is itself almost nothing, but atoms form a crossroads where science ...

Artist’s illustration of gold compressed to ultra-high pressures by laser pulses at the National Ignition Facility.Jacob Long/LLNL Researchers have captured the most detailed look yet at how gold’s ...

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.

A scanning tunneling microscope and machine learning algorithm autonomously search for atomic structures. This image shows a vacancy defect on europium zinc arsenide. A research team led by Oak Ridge ...

The Hiroshima atomic bomb, with an explosive yield of 15 kilotons, would be considered a low-yield nuclear weapon by today’s standards. The largest nuclear weapon in the US arsenal has a yield of 1.2 ...

Aug. 6 marks the 80th anniversary of the United States dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima – and three days later, on Nagasaki – during World War II. Today, most Americans (83%) ...