Using nuclear magnetic resonance, researchers at ETH Zurich have studied the atomic environments of single platinum atoms in ...

What happens when the smallest building blocks of matter refuse to play by the rules of traditional physics? For decades, ...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) gets a breath of fresh air as it collides beams of protons and oxygen ions for the very first ...

The invisible dark matter is one of the universe's biggest mysteries, and its existence is confirmed only by the ...

We review the historical and modern understanding of the most basic equation of friction, Amontons' law, which describes phenomena that were already understood and studied by Leonardo da Vinci 500 ...