The Princeton that Albert Einstein knew in 1933 was sharply divided by the color line; a long-established border—marked by ...

Voltage fade has quietly limited some of the most promising lithium-ion cathodes, eroding the energy they can deliver long before the rest of the cell wears out. A new wave of research suggests that ...

A joint research team from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory has achieved precise control and real-time observation of ...

Researchers at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet have captured the first detailed molecular snapshots of human polynucleotide phosphorylase (hPNPase) in action, ...

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

Giant atoms, artificial atoms larger than the interacting wavelength of light, exhibit decoherence-free behavior, but what ...

Matt Korda, the associate director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, assisted USA ...

Scientists have managed to observe solar neutrinos carrying out a rare atomic transformation deep underground, converting carbon-13 into nitrogen-13 inside the SNO+ detector. By tracking two faint ...

A shiny gray crystal called platinum-bismuth-two hides an electronic world unlike anything scientists have seen before.

The United Nations rarely moves fast on disarmament. This year, though, it did something unusual. On November 6, the General Assembly’s First Committee, where states debate over questions of ...