The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the clock to 85 seconds before midnight, the theoretical point of annihilation.

Midnight represents the moment at which people will have made Earth uninhabitable.

When materials become just one atom thick, melting no longer follows the familiar rules. Instead of jumping straight from solid to liquid, an unusual in-between state emerges, where atomic positions ...

Delve into the detail of atomic physics. As the basic units of matter, atoms are the building blocks for everything in the universe. Once thought to be indivisible, we now know they can indeed be ...

A long-standing law of thermodynamics turns out to have a loophole at the smallest scales. Researchers have shown that quantum engines made of correlated particles can exceed the traditional ...

Physicists from University of Jyväskylä and Aalto University (Finland) has realized experimentally a two-dimensional topological crystalline insulator. This is a quantum material that has been ...

By bringing the long-standing and opposing views of quantum mechanics together to form a single cohesive theory, a research ...

A study involving quantum collapse model has shown that time is not uniform but has tiny fluctuations that put limits on its ...

A hundred years ago, quantum mechanics was a radical theory that baffled even the brightest minds. Today, it's the backbone ...

Scientists developed a theory linking mobile and static behaviors of a particle in a Fermi sea, explaining quasiparticles and ...

A new unified theory connects two fundamental domains of modern quantum physics: It joins two opposite views of how a single exotic particle behaves in a many-body system, namely as a mobile or static ...

Different atoms and ions possess characteristic energy levels. Like a fingerprint, they are unique for each species. Among ...