Deep inside planets like Uranus and Neptune, scientists may have uncovered a bizarre new state of matter where atoms behave ...

Scientists from the Carnegie Institution have discovered that a previously unknown form of matter may exist in the depths of ...

A stretchy, mid-level layer of nanodiamonds allows the typically hard, brittle crystal to bend, not break, under pressure.

But last year, scientists demonstrated that quantum systems don’t always follow those patterns, finding a quantum gas that ...

Part one explained the physics of quantum computing. This piece explains the target — how bitcoin's encryption works, why a ...

Some of the heaviest atoms in the universe barely exist long enough to be ...

(bymuratdeniz/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Although there are many variables in life, there's one metric by which our existence ...

Plasma, the fourth state of matter, consists of a gas in which electrons are no longer bound to atoms, which allows ...

After two centuries of failed attempts, scientists have finally grown dolomite in the lab, cracking a long-standing ...

Fifteen years after Western astronomers first discovered "buckyballs" in space (soccer ball-shaped molecules that resemble a ...

Western University researchers have released a striking new image of the planetary nebula Tc 1, offering fresh insight into ...

Scientists reveal how pairs interact in superconductors and discover an unexpected quantum pattern that challenges current ...