According to all the known laws of physics, the Big Bang should have created a Universe consisting of both matter and ...

For decades, popular science has repeated a simple origin story: everything in our bodies was forged in ancient stars and ...

Scientists have made leaps and bounds in bending atoms to their will, making them into everything from ultraprecise clocks to bits of quantum data. Translating these quantum technologies from obedient ...

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

The first “atoms” in the universe were not atoms at all—they were just nuclei that had not found electrons yet. The simplest nucleus, that of common hydrogen, is a bare proton with no frills. When the ...

A couple of weeks back I posted an answer to a question from a Twitter follower’s child, who asked “How Strong Is Space?” That was fun, so here’s another kid-question answered, this one from my own ...

MIT scientists have achieved the first-ever lab synthesis of verticillin A, a complex fungal compound discovered in 1970. Its delicate structure stalled chemists for decades, despite differing from ...

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

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