Scientists are exploring a new type of optical atomic clock based on ytterbium-173 ions that could help define the future standard for measuring time.

Recycling bin filled with plastic bottles emphasizes waste management and environmental awareness. Image in public domain.

Physicists in China have demonstrated that a structure called an optical metasurface can individually trap up to 78,400 neutral atoms – a promising development in efforts to build a large-scale ...

Carbon is everywhere. It forms the graphite in pencils, the diamonds in jewelry and the molecules that make up every living thing. Under extreme conditions -- like the heat and pressure of intense ...

Researchers developed a dual-modulated vertical transistor that suppresses leakage at nanoscale channels and supports ...

A team of physicists has computationally constructed a two-dimensional material that behaves like a paradox: it is disordered ...

What would you do if you woke up on a spaceship light-years from Earth without knowing why you're there? Based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Andy Weir, who also penned The Martian, Amazon ...

Physicists have found a new “island of inversion” in the nucleus of molybdenum-84, a perfectly balanced atom with equal numbers of protons and neutrons. The discovery upends a decades-old assumption ...

A new type of molecule, not only never before seen but not even predicted, was created with the aid of quantum computers.

Welcome to one of Scubaverse.com’s regular ongoing series, From Back Yard to Bucket List. Each month, we ask an underwater photographer to talk about their ...