This progress means that, for the first time, complicated astrophysical events like shocks and turbulence can be studied in a ...

Scientists have used ultracold atoms to successfully demonstrate a novel method of particle acceleration that could unlock a ...

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An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and ...

Big Tech thinks quantum computing will supercharge AI. First, it has to solve its biggest problem: scaling qubits.

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A science festival is returning to Abingdon later this month. ATOM Festival of Science & Technology celebrated its 10th anniversary last year. It highlights the companies, organisations and ...

Changing an atom in a molecule using light? This South Korean scientific breakthrough could revolutionize the pharmaceutical industry. Replacing a single atom in a molecule without altering the others ...

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The World's First X-Ray Of A Single Atom Scientists could see what those atoms got up to in the molecules they were placed in.

Science news this week includes a 72 million-year-old mosasaur unearthed in Japan and a startling theory about atom-size black holes. (Image credit: Getty Images - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center) ...