The most precise clocks in the world will lose only one second every 300 billion years—and someday they might fit in your ...

This week got off to a flying start when new science experiments and cargo were launched to the International Space Station, ...

Professor Igor Lesanovsky from the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Tübingen, Professor Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and Professor Markus ...

Illustration: Andreas Müller, Schematic illustration of an ion crystal in which two ions are excited to highly ...

Electron drops in solid samples ... The occurrence of X-rays is caused by the collision of electrons with incident electrons in the disk orbit (shell) of the atoms in the sample. When the excited ...

Electrons typically travel at high speeds, zipping through matter unbound. In the 1930s, physicist Eugene Wigner predicted that electrons could be coaxed into stillness at low densities and cold ...

If the radiation is strong enough, it is possible that a second electron of the atom is also affected: It can be shifted into a state with higher energy and then orbit the atomic nucleus on a ...

Thanks to their wavy structure, quantum phenomena can be observed in a more accessible way. Transmission electron micrograph of a material with wavy atomic layers. Credit: Checkelsky Lab, MIT One of ...

The European Space Agency announced this week the selection of Rocket Factory Augsburg, The Exploration Company, ArianeGroup, ...

Earlier this year, astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were sent into orbit on a Boeing Starliner. What initially looked like a feel-good storyline for the company has turned into something ...