For centuries, alchemists have dreamed of turning lead into gold. At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), they’ve finally managed ...

MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space. The pictures reveal ...

CERN's ALICE experiment turned lead into gold—briefly—reviving alchemists' old dreams with modern nuclear physics.

MIT physicists have taken the first-ever direct images of individual atoms interacting freely in space. Their findings, ...

When an object moves extremely fast—close to the speed of light—certain basic assumptions that we take for granted no longer ...

Unorthodox though it is, his work has been highly impactful and widely celebrated: Nagel won the 1999 Oliver E. Buckley Prize ...

S cientists now have a new approach to study never-before-seen quantum phenomena. Physicists from the Massachusetts Institute ...

Until now, atoms have never been imaged interacting freely in space, but a new technique known as non-resolved microscopy has ...

MIT scientists have snapped the first-ever images of individual atoms interacting freely in space, making visible the elusive ...

Chirality — the property of an object that is distinct from its mirror image — has long captivated scientists across biology, chemistry, and physics ...

Cogito, ergo sum, as the phrase goes in Latin, cemented the way the Western world would continue to define the self for the next 400 years—as a thinking mind, first and foremost. The experiment used a ...