Physicists have made a breakthrough in the development of a nuclear clock, a new kind of ultraprecise clock that could ...

Researchers have long been hunting for a way to make the elusive elements more stable so they can be better studied.

This physicist and self-described “plasma guy” (and former head of Argonne National Laboratory) delves into whether can ...

Scientists are pioneering new material designs that may bring the dream of room-temperature superconductivity closer to reality. Superconductors typically require extremely low temperatures to ...

Scientists have discovered a new way of creating superheavy elements by firing supercharged ion beams at dense atoms. The team believes this method could potentially help synthesize the hypothetical ...

Yann LeCun, a Turing Award winner, is developing 'objective-driven AI' to enable computers to learn intuitive physics like ...

A graduate student at the University of Illinois Chicago has developed new materials that could help scientists tackle one of the most challenging problems of our time: creating superconductors that ...

Where does the periodic table of chemical elements end and which processes lead to the existence of heavy elements? Researchers report on experiments to come closer to an answer. They gained insight ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

From brilliant detectives to unconventional masterminds, these 27 TV characters prove that genius isn’t just about IQ.

The former dean of MIT's plasma fusion dept—which is intimately tied to the privately funded Commonwealth Fusion Systems, ...