An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

For experimental physicists, the latest measurement of the muon is the best of times. For theorists there's still work to do.

The shapes of atomic orbitals also affect the spectroscopic properties of atoms and molecules. The absorption and emission of ...

Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, as quantum physics was just being invented – ...

Many heavy atomic nuclei are shaped more or less like squashed rugby balls than fully inflated ones, according to a theoretical study by RIKEN nuclear physicists published in The European Physical ...

“This effect is called the Bohr–Weisskopf effect, ” Wilkins added. “To the best of our knowledge, it’s never been seen in a molecule before. The fact that we could both observe this effect ...

A collaboration between scientists at Imperial College London and Swiss data analytics developer DataHow has created a new software function now available for Design of Experiment (DoE) for upstream ...

A hobbyist developer building AI language models that speak Victorian-era English “just for fun” got an unexpected history lesson this week when his latest creation mentioned real protests from 1834 ...

Brian Spears and colleagues built a generative machine learning model that was used to successfully predict the outcome of a recent fusion ignition experiment at the U.S. National Ignition Facility ...

Abstract illustration of a quantum double-slit experiment. Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. MIT physicists have recreated the most iconic experiment in quantum physics — this time with individual atoms ...