The Doomsday Clock—a symbolic device to signal an array of existential threats to the world since 1947—was recently moved to ...

Phase-coherent lasers are crucial for many precision tasks, including timekeeping. Here on Earth the most stable optical ...

A Bloomberg analysis suggests the nuclear push comes too late to stop China’s nuclear capacity from overtaking the U.S. fleet at the start of the next decade.

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new way to determine atomic structures from nanocrystals previously considered unusable, ...

Rare earth minerals are a group of 17 elements found in the Earth's crust. They are utilised in numerous modern technologies, including smartphones, electric cars, wind turbines, and military ...

A team of physicists has experimentally confirmed a long-predicted sequence of exotic magnetic phases in an atomically thin ...