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Wolverhampton Wanderers are one of the favourites for relegation from the Premier League but chairman Jeff Shi has channelled ...

For experiments that require ultra-precise measurements and control over atoms—think two-photon atomic clocks, cold-atom interferometer sensors and quantum gates—lasers are the technology of ...

Step into a world so tiny, it defies imagination -- the nanoscale. Picture a single strand of hair, now shrink it a million times. You've arrived. Here, atoms and molecules are the architects of ...

Researchers studying sun-like stars and historical evidence from tree rings and glacial ice suggest that extreme solar events ...

Virginia could soon make history as the home of the world’s first nuclear fusion power plant, state officials and business ...

Research from a UMass-Lowell team found that Alzheimer’s patients had certain concentrations of common elements in their ...

Physicists discovered strange supersolids, constructed new kinds of superconductors, and continued to make the case that the ...