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In a first, researchers from the U.S. and Germany excite Thorium-229 in opaque material, advancing optical nuclear clocks.

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Physicists are no longer content to simply listen to ripples in spacetime. A new proposal sketches out how an exquisitely ...

A scalable nanofabrication method uses electric-field alignment and picosecond laser welding to imprint patterned silver ...

The self-driving car seems like something promised to Americans by generations of science fiction shows and movies. It seems ...

Atomic defects in nanodiamonds enable both precise heating of lysosomes inside macrophages and nanoscale temperature ...

The energy sent is low-intensity, invisible infrared light, which allows ground-based solar projects to generate power even ...

Fraunhofer IAF and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy have provided 145 high-performance low-noise amplifiers for ...