In the atomic fear of the 1950s, the U.S. Army tried to reinvent itself for nuclear war with the radical Pentomic division.

Researchers at Kanazawa University report in Biophysics and Physicobiology how to optimize high-speed atomic force microscopy experiments on live cell membranes, so that moving objects like molecules ...

Scientists have observed “bending” atoms using a crystal grating—an experiment once believed impossible at the high energies required. The authors of a new, non-peer reviewed study detail how the a ...

The Cold War was more than missiles, spy planes, and tense TV speeches. It also led to shocking government experiments ...

Griffith University researchers are conducting an experiment at ANSTO that will test a revolutionary physics theory that time reversal symmetry-breaking by neutrinos might cause a time dilation at the ...

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Yuri Ralchenko led one of the oldest teams at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The fate of some experiments hangs in the air. Lost Science Yuri Ralchenko led one of the oldest teams ...

Physicists working on the MIGDAL experiment reported the first direct evidence of the Migdal effect in January 2026, confirming an atomic process that was predicted in 1939 but had never been cleanly ...

Optical atomic clocks are the most accurate measuring instruments ever built and are becoming key tools for basic and applied research, for example to test the constancy of natural constants or for ...

West Germany has allocated 30,000, 000 Deutschmarks ($7, 500, 000) “to finance atomic experiments in Israel,” and Joint work is now under way between West German and Israeli specialists “creating ...