The third known interstellar comet to visit our solar system has just done something no one had seen before: it lit up in ...

For the first time, scientists have observed the iconic Shapiro steps, a staircase-like quantum effect, in ultracold atoms.

AI maps fleeting DNA quadruplexes, revealing paired structures that control genes in healthy cells and cancer.

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

In a landmark effort to understand how the physical structure of our DNA influences human biology, Northwestern investigators and the 4D Nucleome Project have unveiled the most detailed maps to date ...

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Earth’s magnetic field has long been framed as a planetary force field, a protective bubble that keeps the worst of the Sun’s ...

Science rarely hands us an image that rewires intuition as much as it satisfies curiosity. But one faint, floating ...