If a major disaster like Fukushima or Chernobyl ever happens again, the world would know almost straight away, thanks to an array of government and DIY radiation-monitoring programs running globally.

The quantum world has a reputation for being elusive, but physicists are now starting to watch it unfold in real time. For ...

Liquids and solutions are complex environments—think, for example, of sugar dissolving in water, where each sugar molecule ...

By building an atomic equivalent of the critical Josephson junction, scientists can now study how energy is lost and excitations form.

Using the world’s most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never ...

How do you photograph something that moves so fast it can travel the circumference of the earth in 18 seconds? A UA physicist is hoping a $1.1 million award will allow him to modify an already ...

Chandrayaan-3 is India’s third lunar mission. It aimed to show a soft landing and rover movement. Vikram landed near the ...

“Our achievement may herald a new form of matter combining characteristics of solids and liquids in the same material,” ...

Using advanced electron microscopy, researchers have watched individual atoms transition from chaotic liquid motion to ordered solid structure, revealing that the boundary between liquid and solid ...

Researchers have discovered that not all atoms in a liquid are in motion and that some remain stationary regardless of the ...

Beyond the local interstellar clouds and their wispy clumps of hydrogen and helium atoms in the form of gas and dust, the ...

When a gas is highly energized, its electrons get torn from the parent atoms, resulting in a plasma—the oft-forgotten fourth ...