A strange strip of metal-rich gas in deep space is giving astronomers an unsettling glimpse of how worlds like ours might die ...

The German philosopher Karl Marx famously said religion was “the opium for the masses.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Charles Darwin, and Sigmund Freud, along with a host of other notable thinkers of ...

Entangled atoms, separated in space, are giving scientists a powerful new way to measure the world with stunning precision.

Can a small lump of metal be in a quantum state that extends over distant locations? A research team at the University of Vienna answers this question with a resounding yes. In the journal Nature, ...

Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry’s most famous “rules” aren’t as unbreakable as once thought. By ...

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Scientists at the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL have realized a long-pursued experimental goal in physics: to show how ...

Next-generation technology requires next-generation materials that can be tailored to exact mission requirements. Additive ...

The chemical foundations of life could be found in the frigid pockets of molecular clouds that exist in the space between ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the clearest look yet at the iconic Helix Nebula. This stunning infrared view ...

Delivering a lecture in 1959, theoretical physicist, Richard Feynman, wondered out loud: “What would the properties of materials be if we could really arrange the atoms the way we want them?” The ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? The fifth state of matter—the ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)—has been an ...