For decades, scientists believed that lead-208, a "doubly magic" and highly stable atomic nucleus, was perfectly spherical.

Password sharing: Netflix’s crackdown on password sharing doesn’t apply to website or mobile app use, presumably because it’d be tricky to block out-of-home use on portable devices. Watching on a PC ...

Quantum systems don’t just transition between phases—they do so in ways that defy classical intuition. A new experiment has ...

Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atoms thick by crushing them at a high ...

Ask almost any physicist what the most frustrating problem is in modern-day physics, and they will likely say the discrepancy between general relativity and quantum mechanics. That discrepancy has ...

Two experiment collaborations, the g2p and EG4 collaborations, combined their complementary data on the proton's inner ...

Two experiment collaborations, the g2p and EG4 collaborations, combined their complementary data on the proton’s inner ...

AI agents are starting to act independently, which could usher in a fundamentally new type of economic reality in which the ...

Captain Atom takes a desperate trip down memory lane while the Atom Project faces internal strife in Justice League: The Atom ...

Last night was the first time I had heard the 12 Ensemble, a string group currently Artist-in-Residence at the Wigmore Hall, and I was very impressed, both by the standard of the playing and the ...

An experiment bludgeoning special lead atoms with high-speed particles has revealed a shocking surprise. Far from the perfect sphere physicists from the University of Surrey expected to find, the ...