When a guitar string is plucked or a playground swing is set in motion, the movement gradually fades away. Physicists call ...

JJ Thomson’s discovery of the electron in 1897 reshaped physics forever. Honoured with the 1906 Nobel Prize, he mentored ...

A Vermont research team has cracked a 90-year-old puzzle, creating a quantum version of the damped harmonic oscillator. By ...

The use of atomic clocks could help bring cosmology and astrophysics "down to Earth" by allowing scientists to investigate the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter in the lab.

After more than 30 years, physicists in Finland have uncovered the heaviest nucleus ever seen to emit a proton, a rare ...

The use of atomic clocks could help bring cosmology and astrophysics "down to Earth" by allowing scientists to investigate the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter in the lab.

A University of Vermont physicist and his student wondered if there are systems in the atomic scale that behave like the ...