The National Atomic Testing Museum invites the community to attend a one-night-only public screening of the documentary ...

A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...

Two billion years before we made history and split the atom, the Earth had already accomplished it and was running its own ...

For two centuries, students have learned that heat flows and engines work according to rigid limits that no machine can beat.

Electronics keep shrinking, but silicon is starting to run into physical limits. To go smaller, researchers are turning to ...

Almost exactly 200 years ago, French physicist Sadi Carnot determined the maximum efficiency of heat engines. The Carnot ...

A joint research team from the Institute of Metal Research (IMR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory has achieved precise control and real-time observation of ...