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Commercial-grade wafers of the popular semiconductor harbor spin states that can be coherently manipulated at room temperature.

Before the first stars, there were presumably no nuclei heavier than lithium. But pristine gas without a trace of stellar contamination has been elusive.

After spending three decades in academia conducting nanotechnology research, the chemist-turned-physicist is now tackling the energy problem in the faster-paced industrial environment.

The country’s scientists and engineers are starting to take part in the design and construction of telescopes, a trend that could boost other industries and the economy.

Legislation making the US the last country to abandon the first-to-invent patent system should have a significant effect on the way scientists approach patenting.

A physics Nobel laureate reflects on how he came to understand the significance of a youthful lunchtime encounter with a famous mathematician.

Sandwiched between the shallow region of sudden, infrequent earthquakes and the deeper home to continuous viscous motion lies an intermediate realm of intermittent sliding and rumbling. Discovered in recent years, it still harbors many secrets.

Focus on photonics and biomedical optics

The worlds of art and archaeology have adapted techniques developed in nuclear physics laboratories to learn where and when an artwork or artifact was created.