A team has done what a scientist first suggested in 1961 was possible, but has eluded everyone since: controlling the nucleus of a single atom using only electric fields
Astronomers from the University of Warwick have observed an exoplanet orbiting a star in just over 18 hours, the shortest orbital period ever observed for a planet of its type
It was predicted 30 years ago, now the effect has been measured for the first time by scientists at TU Wien (Vienna): the neutron spin exhibits inertial effects
As demand for smaller and faster devices grows, scientists and engineers turn to materials with properties that can deliver when existing ones lose their punch
Researchers had been looking for something completely different, but they found a previously unknown quasi-particle: A bound state of two electrons, two holes, and light
To overcome a complete annihilation, researchers say, the universe must have turned a small amount of anti-matter into matter, creating an imbalance between them