Buried deep underground, this extraordinary machine has already transformed humanity's understanding of the universe.

For much of the early 20th century, quantum mechanics was one of the most puzzling ideas in science. The theory challenged conventional thinking and ...

Quantum mechanics has journeyed from a strange and controversial idea to the foundation of some of humanity’s most advanced ...

Think about the atomic age. The early work in the United States was carried out across a classified but federally accountable archipelago with national laboratories in four sites: Berkeley, Oak Ridge, ...

America 250: The history and impact of Los Alamos ...

A clock based on radioactive thorium atoms realises a long-held ambition, demonstrating a technology that could eventually beat the accuracy of today’s best atomic clocks ...

(koto_feja/Getty Images) A breakthrough in chronometry decades in the making could redefine the limits of how we keep time. Using atoms of thorium-229, physicists have built functional clocks based ...

These radical new devices keep time using fluctuations in the energy states of an atom’s nucleus, rather than those of its ...

Strongly interacting quantum particles are key to some of the most fascinating phenomena in modern physics—from magnetism and ...

Together, they form Helios, a new quantum computer built by the British-American company Quantinuum. Quantum computers use ...

Silver iodide is an electrical insulator, which rules out most surface-imaging tools that rely on electrons or ions. The team ...

Controlling and trapping molecules, units of a substance consisting of two or more chemically bound atoms, with laser light ...