When two black holes merge or two neutron stars collide, gravitational waves can be generated. They spread at the speed of ...

Ultrashort laser pulses—that are shorter than a millionth of a millionth of a second—have transformed fundamental science, ...

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

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Even as quantum navigation emerges as a legitimate alternative to satellite-based navigation, the satellites themselves are ...

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

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

Breakthroughs in optical sensing, like band-pass Raman spectroscopy, promise a future free from painful finger-prick blood ...

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

By building an atomic equivalent of the critical Josephson junction, scientists can now study how energy is lost and excitations form.

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

They enable high-precision measurements, define the unit of voltage, and form the heart of many quantum computers – the ...