An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking ...

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Researchers made small, pure samples of the elusive mineral lonsdaleite – also known as hexagonal diamond — and tested its ...

Leah Broussard, a research scientist in the Physics Division of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has received the inaugural DOE Distinguished Mentor Award for Workforce ...

A class of glass that cannot crystallize, even given infinite time, is forcing physicists to rethink some of the oldest ...

A new experiment using rare-isotope beams has provided new insight into the origin of proton-rich isotopes known as p-nuclei.

American physicist Charles Bennett and Canadian computer scientist Gilles Brassard have won the 2025 Turing Award, for pioneering quantum cryptography, a method designed to provide secure ...

Scientists observe a visible time crystal for the first time, revealing a phase of matter that repeats patterns through time.

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by ...

Britain is preparing to cancel its contribution to one of the Large Hadron Collider's next major upgrades.

Static electricity may seem simple. Students often learn that rubbing a balloon against their hair will cause negatively ...

The Department of Energy’s Office of Science is being ‘realigned’ following a broader restructuring of the agency.