Hundreds of Allied prisoners of war were held in Japanese camps in Nagasaki when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb 80 years ago ...

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In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...

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The oxidative power makes atomic oxygen useful for a number of fields and industries, but scientists don’t know all the ...

Controlling light at dimensions thousands of times smaller than the thickness of a human hair is one of the pillars of modern ...

For the first time, scientists have observed the iconic Shapiro steps, a staircase-like quantum effect, in ultracold atoms.

Hydrogen peroxide is essential for daily life, but most of it is still made through energy-intensive industrial processes. Researchers have now ...

But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe's contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and ...

Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics ...