At first glance, some scientific research can seem, well, impractical. When physicists began exploring the strange, subatomic ...

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Walter “Wally” Gilbert is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus and Emeritus Chair of the Society of Fellows at ...

Three researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been recognized with Department of Energy Office of Science Early ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

A long-standing law of thermodynamics turns out to have a loophole at the smallest scales. Researchers have shown that quantum engines made of correlated particles can exceed the traditional ...

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Research in the lab of UC Santa Barbara materials professor Stephen Wilson is focused on understanding the fundamental ...

Scientists are learning how to temporarily reshape materials by nudging their internal quantum rhythms instead of blasting ...

The hydrogen molecule H 2 is the simplest stable molecule, with two protons and two electrons bound together. Scientists have studied it for more than a century because it’s small enough that theory ...

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