There's a reason several of the world's biggest tech companies have quantum research headquarters in California.

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

There wasn't a lot of gold and it didn't last long, but the results are still impressive. For centuries, alchemists dreamed ...

Several centuries ago, a branch of alchemy called chrysopoeia is said to have explored the possibilities of transforming ...

Don Pettit spent a busy 220 days at the International Space Station. He conducted experiments, talked with students and ...

In a paper published in Physical Review C, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of ...

When two lead nuclei race through the LHC at nearly the speed of light, they sometimes just miss each other. Instead of ...

Scientists at Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accidentally made gold in an effort to mimic the state of the Universe ...

While attempting to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, physicists at Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ...

MIT physicists have captured the first images of individual atoms freely interacting in space— “free-range” particles never ...

Researchers captured the first-ever images of atoms freely interacting in space, offering a rare glimpse into quantum ...