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Physicists challenge a 200-year-old law of thermodynamics at the atomic scale

Two physicists at the University of Stuttgart have demonstrated that the Carnot principle, a foundational rule of thermodynamics, does not…

3 weeks ago

Ghost particles slip through Earth and spark a hidden atomic reaction

Neutrinos are among the most puzzling particles known to science and are often called 'ghost particles' because they so rarely…

2 months ago

Breakthrough study challenges long-held beliefs about the shape of atomic nuclei

An international research collaboration led by the University of Surrey's Nuclear Physics Group has overturned the long-standing belief that the…

12 months ago

New paradigm of drug discovery with world’s first atomic editing?

In pioneering drug development, the new technology that enables the easy and rapid editing of key atoms responsible for drug…

1 year ago

Geologists, biologists unearth the atomic fingerprints of cancer

Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and Princeton University have, for the first time, employed a tool often used…

2 years ago

1,000 atomic qubits and rising

Making quantum systems more scalable is one of the key requirements for the further development of quantum computers because the…

2 years ago

First-ever atomic freeze-frame of liquid water

In an experiment akin to stop-motion photography, scientists have isolated the energetic movement of an electron while "freezing" the motion…

2 years ago