In biology, defects are generally bad. But in materials science, defects can be intentionally tuned to give materials useful ...

Perovskite crystals can dramatically and reversibly change shape when hit with light, a behavior not seen in conventional semiconductors. This effect, called photostriction, can be finely tuned ...

Researchers have visualized atoms in motion just before a radiation-driven decay process occurs, revealing a surprisingly ...

We’re not talking about those hulking nuclear reactor cooling towers best known from meltdown disaster footage. Instead, the ...

Monash University researchers have captured the exact atomic movements that write data to next-generation memory devices, which could pave the way for ...

Robert Oppenheimer himself sent a letter to her inviting her to spend an academic year at the Institute of Advanced Studies ...

At the height of the Cold War, nuclear weapons were seen not only as devices of destruction, but also as tools for progress.

Claire Cramer, the executive director of quantum science at the University of California, Berkeley, who was in attendance, expressed optimism about the potential of solid-state nuclear clocks: “This ...

Harbin Engineering University has become the first Chinese higher education institution to receive an International Nuclear ...

NavIC's impaired satellite navigation raises security concerns, as only three satellites with operational atomic clocks ...

A paradox emerges within the realm of technological progress: the closer we get to the infinitely small, the more we expand the realm of possibility. At a time when AI, distributed systems, and ...

The IDF says it struck Iran's Arak heavy water plant, a key plutonium site, as experts warn Natanz and Isfahan still hold ...