A multi-disciplinary team of researchers linked atomic-scale features to efficient heat-to-electricity conversion, offering ...

When a laser experiment fails to produce the expected flash of light, most researchers would assume something went wrong with ...

The new protocol-independent method uses power waves for secure battery-free sensor authentication, ensuring efficiency and ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The challenge: the process seemed random and notoriously difficult to predict.

Proton collisions at the LHC appear wildly chaotic, but new data reveal a surprising underlying order. The findings confirm that a basic rule of quantum mechanics holds true even in extreme particle ...

Most of today's quantum computers rely on qubits with Josephson junctions that work for now but likely won't scale as needed ...