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Physicists have finally done what once sounded like science fiction: they have read the X-ray “fingerprint” of a single atom, isolating the signal of one of nature’s smallest building blocks from the ...

When we first learn about atoms, we learn that the simplest has one electron buzzing around one proton, aka hydrogen. But it ...

Science rarely hands us an image that rewires intuition as much as it satisfies curiosity. But one faint, floating ...

In recent years, heat has stopped being just a number on a thermometer and has become something we can literally see at the atomic scale. In 2025, an ...

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

Like their conventional counterparts, quantum computers can also break down. They can sometimes lose the atoms they ...

AI maps fleeting DNA quadruplexes, revealing paired structures that control genes in healthy cells and cancer.

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NASA’s SPHEREx has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, which are invisible to the human eye but can be used to ...

In a landmark effort to understand how the physical structure of our DNA influences human biology, Northwestern investigators and the 4D Nucleome Project have unveiled the most detailed maps to date ...