Laser sucks energy out of atoms as fast as nearby surface puts it in.

Optical switch could boost quantum technologies

We could be able to control matter at a whole new level of precision after scientists discovered a way of manipulating individual molecules for a millionth of a billionth of a second – an unprecedented level of fine-tuning way beyond what we've s

Proposed Be-Be bond would be first double bond between s block elements using only π electrons

The first new uncertainty principle to be formulated in decades helps explain why a quantum object can be two temperatures at once.

The building blocks of matter in our universe were formed in the first 10 microseconds of its existence, according to the currently accepted scientific picture. After the Big Bang about 13.7 billion years ...

Rather than a cat in a box, this new interpretation of a classic thought experiment features two physicists doing research -- and it's stumping modern researchers.

A new theory proposes that the quantum properties of an object extend into an “atmosphere” that surrounds the material.

Scientists at Radboud University discovered a new mechanism for magnetic storage of information in the smallest unit of matter: a single atom. While the proof of principle was demonstrated at very low ...

Chemists have largely ignored quantum mechanics. But it now turns out that this strange physics has a huge effect on biochemical reactions.

It is an understatement to say that chemical reactions take place everywhere, constantly. In both nature and the lab, chemistry is ubiquitous. But despite advances, it remains a fundamental challenge ...

Oil droplets guided by “pilot waves” have failed to reproduce the results of the quantum double-slit experiment, crushing a century-old dream that there exists

Scientists shoot the world's smallest projectiles - individual molecules - and use them to study how reactions happen