When we go backwards in time through the history of the cosmos, the distances and volumes shrink, while the average energy ...

Researchers have long been hunting for a way to make the elusive elements more stable so they can be better studied.

Lightspeed travel is a popular concept in sci-fi and pop culture, but it's not a technology we are likely to see anytime soon ...

The Big Bang theory suggests that the universe began as a hot, dense point, expanding into the cosmos we observe today.

Polytechnique Montréal today marked a milestone in its involvement in high-technology materials development, with the inauguration of facilities housing the first atom probe tomography microscope in ...

Where does the periodic table of chemical elements end and which processes lead to the existence of heavy elements? Researchers report on experiments to come closer to an answer. They gained insight ...

A team of scientists set out to probe some of the heaviest elements in the periodic table using an advanced form of laser ...

"For the first time, we see the creation of atoms; we can measure the temperature of the matter and see the microphysics in ...

Calculations of charge distribution in mesons provide benchmark for experimental measurements and validate widely used 'factorization' method for imaging the building blocks of matter.

This shift towards miniaturization and efficiency recalls an idea put forth over 60 years ago by physicist Richard Feynman in ...

Negative-stiffness vibration isolators enhance AFM performance, ensuring stability and precision in nanoscale imaging and ...

For nearly 10 years we’ve been operating in a search mode, and any day we could make a discovery,” said Gray Rybka, a ...