The dream of creating game-changing quantum computers—supermachines that encode information in single atoms rather than ...

Many heavy atomic nuclei are shaped more or less like squashed rugby balls than fully inflated ones, according to a ...

Having good neighbors can be very valuable—even in the atomic world. A team of Amsterdam physicists was able to determine an important property of strontium atoms, a highly useful element for modern ...

A new research paper titled "Poisoning attacks on LLMs require a near-constant number of poison samples" questions a key assumption about the security of large AI language models. The study, published ...

Knowledge and understanding of science, scientific literacy and scientific methods are necessary for learners to develop the skills to resolve questions about their natural and constructed world. The ...

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will reduce its operating hours from five days a week to weekend hours only, starting this week. Beginning Oct. 1, the science institution will ...

The movement of protons through electrically charged water is one of the most fundamental processes in chemistry. It is evident in everything from eyesight to energy storage to rocket fuel — and ...

Mirror magic: The "cores" of the exotic nuclei oxygen-22 and silicon-22 both resemble that of oxygen-16, with eight protons and eight neutrons. The neutron-rich oxygen isotope contains an additional ...