Two huge metal rings, each more than two miles around. Gold ions smashing together at more than 99.99 percent the speed of light. House-size machines with masses of neon green wires.

Kyushu University scientists have achieved a major leap in fuel cell technology by enabling efficient proton transport at just 300°C. Their scandium-doped oxide materials create a wide, soft pathway ...

When you get an MRI scan, the machine exploits a phenomenon called nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Certain kinds of atomic nuclei—including those of the hydrogen atoms in a water molecule—can be ...

Princeton Ph.D. student Lin Du tested hydrogen electrolysis using reclaimed wastewater. In the electrolyzer, electric current causes positively charged hydrogen ions (protons) to move from an anode ...

The hydrogen bomb, unlike the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima, generates energy through fusion by fusing isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium. This fusion process requires extremely high ...

Nikesh Kooverjee has been contributing to the automotive sphere for 11 years. His previous roles include Digital Editor at CAR South Africa and associate editor at CarBuzz. He has always had a strong ...

The world’s very first internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle wasn’t powered by gasoline but rather by hydrogen. Way back in 1807, Francois Isaac de Rivaz used a hydrogen-filled ballon to drive an ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Understanding how atoms form is a fundamental and important question, since they make up ...

Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize, said that if he could pass on only one piece of scientific information to future generations, it would be that all things are ...

Discover the fascinating world of particle physics — the most fundamental building blocks of the universe and the forces that connect them. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

In the beginning, says one school of cosmology, there was “ylem”*: a featureless mass of protons and neutrons containing all the matter in the universe. A little later (perhaps during the second ...