So why do so many life-forms breathe oxygen? There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that ...

A galaxy spotted just 330 million years after the Big Bang has been implicated in bringing light to the choking dark of the ...

In a first, physicists have directly seen Hofstadter’s butterfly—a long-sought-after fractal in the quantum realm ...

Even when particles seem to shift in the blink of an eye, as with quantum entanglement, there are measurable intervals ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Electronic rotons have been detected for the first time, providing evidence of Wigner crystallization in a 2D electron liquid. Using angle-resolved photoemission ...

Metals, as most know them, are good conductors of electricity. That's because the countless electrons in a metal like gold or ...

The team observed a tornado-like quantum structure in a semimetal compound, tantalum arsenide (TaAs), wherein electrons behave like a swirling vortex in momentum space. The discovery, a collaborative ...

In a world chasing cleaner energy, a group of physicists may have uncovered a surprising new way to make power: by tapping ...

A simple structural tweak has dramatically enhanced the colour clarity and stability of heavy metal-free blue quantum dots.

Comparison of electron- and proton-based FLASH radiotherapy reveals remarkable similarity in reducing acute skin damage ...

"We report the discovery of one of the most distant galaxies known to date," astrophysicist Joris Witstok told Newsweek.

The James Webb Space Telescope has given us a view of the earliest moments of galaxy formation in the Universe.