At that speed, it would take Voyager 1 about 500 million years to reach the center of the Milky Way. Based on those numbers, the likelihood of human beings ever engaging in interstellar travel is ...

Suvarna Ramachandran and Jimin George won the Breakthrough Prize for their work on the Muon g-2 experiment, achieving an unprecedentedly precise measurement of the muon's magnetic moment.

High-energy cosmic rays, 10 million times more powerful than particles accelerated in Earth's strongest atom smasher, may ...

Physicists may have just cracked open a hidden side of the quantum world. For decades, every known particle was thought to ...

Long-held assumptions tell us that atoms with the same number of protons, neutrons and electrons are indistinguishable, but ...

Insulators are materials in which electrons cannot move freely. Past theoretical studies predicted the existence of an unusual insulating state dubbed obstructed atomic insulator (OAI), in which ...

Scientists have pulled off a mind-bending quantum experiment that sounds almost impossible: they showed that tiny metal ...

Dark matter particles could be mediators of the interaction between electrons and atomic nuclei, as shown by a study ...

Silicon carbide dust is forged in the atmospheres of dying, carbon-rich stars and later scattered across the cosmos. But exactly how these grains form has long remained a mystery.

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency is the world's centre for cooperation in the nuclear field. The Agency works with its Member States and multiple partners worldwide to promote the safe, secure ...