The quantum material is made from glass and gold. (LSU Quantum Photonics Group) Materials in a quantum state come with exotic ...

Researchers have captured how a molecule redistributes energy after absorbing light, differentiating the roles of individual ...

The periodic table is one of the triumphs of science. Even before certain elements had been discovered, this chart could successfully predict their masses, densities, how they would link up with other ...

In drug discovery, building complex molecules quickly is the name of the game.

Flasks of quantum dots fluorescing at the Nobel Prize announcement. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images Quantum dots brilliantly fluoresce: They absorb one color of light and reemit it nearly ...

Scientists have now captured video of the intimate dance of two atoms as they bond with one another, break apart and come back together again. In a sequence of images from an electron microscope, two ...

A couple of weeks back I posted an answer to a question from a Twitter follower’s child, who asked “How Strong Is Space?” That was fun, so here’s another kid-question answered, this one from my own ...

If you were to take any object in the Universe that's made of normal matter ⁠— anything a human being could touch, see, or otherwise detect an interaction with using our bodies ⁠— you'd find that you ...