Physicists have uncovered a path to one-dimensional anyons, exotic particles that defy the boson-fermion divide and could reshape quantum physics as we know it.

Scientists have taken a major step toward mimicking nature’s tiniest gateways by creating ultra-small pores that rival the dimensions of biological ion channels—just a few atoms wide. The breakthrough ...

Because permeation and plasma-induced degradation are continuous rather than episodic, their effects accumulate gradually. There may be no excursion event, no sudden leak, and no particle spike to ...

Scientists saw a quark plowing through primordial plasma for the first time, offering a rare look at the first moments after ...

In our three-dimensional space, elementary particles neatly filter into either bosons or fermions. But in lower dimensions, ...

A mathematical equivalent of a microscope with variable resolution has shed light on why some atoms are exceptionally stable, a riddle that has persisted in nuclear physics for decades ...

They ask us to believe, for example, that the world we experience is fundamentally divided from the subatomic realm it’s built from. Or that there is a wild proliferation of parallel universes, or ...

A portable detector the size of a cookie box reveals in real time the cosmic particles that pass through your body every ...

For a mere moment after the Big Bang, no neutrons or protons are thought to have existed. These neutral and positively charged particles, respectively, make up the center of all atoms today. But ...

A team in Japan may have found a way to track the invisible force that shapes our universe, without needing to see or touch it.

At the smallest scales of nature, the rules of the world shift in ways that can feel unsettling and beautiful at the same ...

An international research collaboration co-led by UCLA has developed a nickel-iron battery, reviving a chemistry favored by ...