Electron–phonon interactions in a material have been modelled by combining billions of Feynman diagrams. Using a modified form of the Monte Carlo method, Marco Bernardi and colleagues at the ...

New observations are the first direct evidence of planets influencing their stars rather than just passively orbiting them ...

Many of us will have careers with three distinct eras: education, work, and retirement. While the first two tend to be ...

Model reveals that tritium in treated water discharged from the Fukushima Daiichi reactor has negligible impact on tritium ...

Novel imaging probe combines a long-chain fatty acid with a near-infrared dye to improve intraoperative visualization of ...

“The level of control the authors have achieved over an individual antimatter particle is unprecedented,” says Dmitry Budker, ...

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Although it hasn’t detected dark matter yet, its developers say it offers an alternative path that is worth exploring ...

Particle physics may have been an early adopter, but AI has now spread throughout physics. This shouldn’t be too surprising. Physics is data-heavy and computationally intensive, so it benefits from ...

In atom-based quantum technologies, motion is seen as a nuisance. The tiniest atomic jiggle or vibration can scramble the delicate quantum information stored in internal states such as the atom’s ...

Known as the Hubble tension, the issue arises from conflicting measurements of how fast the universe is expanding. Now, a new ...

Report says companies see 'huge advantages' in making drugs, harvesting stem cells and growing crystals in space ...