Unstable atoms emit fast-moving particles that can damage cells in the human body. Some atoms are far more unstable than ...

Quantum networks, systems consisting of connected quantum computers, quantum sensors or other quantum devices, hold the ...

Physicists have started running the world's largest particle accelerator at a new record energy and taking the first data from these ultra-powerful collisions. Protons zoom around the 17 mile (27 ...

In 2015, the world's most powerful atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, will restart. The particle accelerator has already discovered the Higgs boson, the so-called "God particle," and when it ...

Why matter dominates over antimatter in our universe has long been a major cosmic mystery to physicists. A new finding by the world's largest particle collider has revealed a clue.

In a significant step toward realizing the vision of quantum networks, a University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) research team has achieved a critical breakthrough. Quantum communication relies ...

Mathematicians have found a way to transform an unproductive quantum computing approach by reviving a class of previously discarded particles. Now, in a new study published in the journal Nature ...

In one second, an estimated 100 billion neutrinos pass through every square centimeter of your hand. These subatomic particles traveling to Earth are a byproduct of nuclear reactions that occur in the ...

Many industrial-scale chemical processes are driven by solid catalysts consisting of tiny chunks of a noble metal such as platinum or rhodium dispersed on a solid support—often a metal oxide. Known as ...

A team of Harvard physicists built the first-ever quantum computing machine that can operate continuously without restarting, ...