You can’t hold antimatter in your hand or even in a regular laboratory apparatus. As soon as antimatter meets matter, the two ...

Northwestern’s positron quantum cyclotron reveals individual energy and spin changes, preparing the way for more precise ...

Photo: Carl D. Anderson (1905–1991) / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) Physicists at Northwestern University have made a ...

Scientists have automated NASA's multi-angle MISR research aerosol retrieval into the MRPA, delivering validated 1.1 km ...

Reducing carbon dioxide emissions from steelmaking requires more efficient ways to turn iron ore into iron. While ...

ETH Zurich and PSI researchers produced a cold, high-intensity muonium beam that could enable an interferometric test of gravity’s effect on second-generation matter.

Looking at the night sky, I felt like reading a book about stars. However, a book for learning constellation names and a book ...

The credit-card comparison is misleading because it treats two separate concepts, particle count and weight, as if they were the same.

A new quantum algorithm significantly reduces the memory needed for predicting future events, offering a potential advantage ...

Tiny atoms and molecules are constantly bombarding each other all around us. While we regularly measure the large-scale ...

New results from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) provide strong evidence that smashing ...

Researchers used powerful lasers to turn plastic into nanodiamonds about 3 nanometers wide, then recovered them intact with a ...