A joint research team from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory has achieved precise control and real-time observation of ...

Physicists are learning to treat light not as an untouchable beam that simply passes through matter, but as something that ...

Artist’s illustration of gold compressed to ultra-high pressures by laser pulses at the National Ignition Facility.Jacob Long/LLNL Researchers have captured the most detailed look yet at how gold’s ...

The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth's atmosphere. As a result of that intense pressure, materials can adopt unexpected structures and properties.

Microscope close-up. Credit: University of Liverpool Faculty – CC BY 2.0 via Flickr. A research team from the University of Victoria says it has reached a microscopy breakthrough with a way to see ...

A scanning tunneling microscope and machine learning algorithm autonomously search for atomic structures. This image shows a vacancy defect on europium zinc arsenide. A research team led by Oak Ridge ...

The Hiroshima atomic bomb, with an explosive yield of 15 kilotons, would be considered a low-yield nuclear weapon by today’s standards. The largest nuclear weapon in the US arsenal has a yield of 1.2 ...

Aug. 6 marks the 80th anniversary of the United States dropping an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima – and three days later, on Nagasaki – during World War II. Today, most Americans (83%) ...

Medicare coverage is changing next month With the penny going away, what should you do with the ones in your coin jar? How a Russian Jet Fighter Nearly Collided with Gigantic US Bomber in the Air ...

Systemic, structural change has always been a part of the perspective of the Greater Good Science Center. In a 2022 essay, editor Jeremy Adam Smith defines structural forces in the context of our work ...