Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...

Physicists at the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms have pulled off a feat once confined to the blackboards of theorists ...

MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal ...

For the first time, a research team has successfully produced one of the most neutron-rich isotopes, hydrogen-6, in an ...

Welcome to the world of quanta, where nothing seems logical, but everything appears possible. A new era is dawning with quantum technologies helping us to better understand and order our world.

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An earthquake in central Myanmar just unearthed an ancient structure that may be part of a royal “water palace,” experts say. Previously, only a staircase was visible. Now, after the ...

Of particular interest to astronomers is the nebula's faint, Venn-diagram-like structure — two rings of ejected material shaped by the gravitational influence of the central stars. Scientists ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A comprehensive wiring diagram and functional map of a mouse brain's visual cortex, the largest to date, has been created from a cubic millimeter of tissue. This ...