Democritus, the Laughing Philosopher, developed atomic theory and taught that true happiness comes from wisdom, not wealth or ...

Mathematician Dr. Steven Strogatz breaks down the history of the math concept and brings it full circle to recent science.

[Translated by Dr. Robert W. Lawson.] THERE is something attractive in presenting the evolution of a sequence of ideas in as brief a form as possible, and yet with a completeness sufficient to ...

For over a century, physicists have grappled with one of the most profound questions in science: How do the rules of quantum ...

Quantum physics just took a leap from theory to reality! Empa researchers have, for the first time, successfully built a long ...

For decades, scientists believed that lead-208, a "doubly magic" and highly stable atomic nucleus, was perfectly spherical.

Credit: Luca Giordano, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Leucippus, the ancient Greek philosopher and father of atomic theory, astonishingly formulated the concept of the great cosmogenic explosion, ...

Dark matter could be an entire dark sector of the universe, with its own particles and forces H ave you ever stood by the sea and been overwhelmed by its vastness, by how quickly it could roll in and ...

Researchers have developed the Automatic Process Explorer (APE), an approach that enhances our understanding of atomic and molecular processes. By dynamically refining simulations, APE has uncovered ...

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Atomic nuclei exhibit multiple energy scales ... stability limits of visible matter and how they can be anchored in our theory of the strong force," says Christian Forssén, professor at the ...