A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, ...

Back in 2021, Pierre Stallforth and his team at the Leibniz-Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology (Leibniz-HKI) showed that bacteria of the genera Pseudomonas and Paenibacillus ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have trapped a single plutonium atom inside a tiny molecular cage, using only six micrograms of the radioactive metal. The work turns an element ...

US researchers achieve a major milestone after successfully trapping plutonium ion between two Keggin ion molecular cages.

Niels Bohr, a pioneer of quantum theory, believed that every significant challenge contains its own solution, compelling us to adapt our thinking. This philosophy, crucial to scientific breakthroughs ...

Scientists in Germany's Max Planck Institute (MPI) showed that metal surfaces can reshape what atomic motion looks like at the nanoscale.

As much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen may be in Earth’s core, scientists reported, suggesting most of Earth’s water was ...

Physicists have discovered a groundbreaking way to measure quantum time without using any external clocks. Find out how.

Scientists have demonstrated a new method for measuring how long ultrashort events like quantum tunneling to occur at quantum scale time.

Time may feel smooth and continuous, but at the quantum level it behaves very differently. Physicists have now found a way to measure how long ultrafast quantum events actually last, without relying ...

A sweeping history of the DOE’s National Labs—from the Manhattan Project to fusion breakthroughs—and their impact on U.S. science and innovation.