Landmine detectors based on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance could reduce the regular occurrence of false positives that hamper ...

Solid-state clock Illustration of how thorium atoms are vaporized (bottom) and then deposited in a thin film on the substrate ...

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Unfortunate timing The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere – its protective bubble – was ...

Still fluorescent: A sample of the supraparticles recycled in the experiment. (Courtesy: Dillon H Downie, University of Strathclyde) Researchers at the University of Strathclyde, UK, have developed a ...

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Baiqiang Huang (left), a PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Virginia, with UVA assistant professor Liheng Cai. Courtesy: Matt Cosner, University of ...

This year marked the 70th anniversary of the European Council for Nuclear Research, which is known universally as CERN. To celebrate, we have published a bumper crop of articles on particle and ...

Stars like our own Sun produce “superflares” around once every 100 years, surprising astronomers who had previously estimated ...