Denison University professor Steve Olmschenk shares his lifelong passion for science, quantum physics and teaching students.

Researchers in the US and Germany have unveiled a theoretical blueprint for an atomic clock driven by a highly synchronized ...

The pulse of an atom's magnetic heart as it ticks back and forth between quantum states has been timed in a laboratory. Physicists used a scanning tunneling microscope to observe electrons as they ...

The adage goes "like mother like daughter," and in the case of Irene Joliot-Curie, truer words were never spoken. She was the daughter of two Nobel Prize laureates, Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, and ...

Physicist David Gross said the rising risks of nuclear war could leave humanity with just decades left.

Nobel prize-winning physicist David Gross recently claimed humanity might not survive the next 50 years because of nuclear ...

She laid much of the theoretical groundwork for the atomic bomb, although she did not participate directly in its production. By Special to The New York Times This obituary was originally published on ...

All around us are elements forged in stars, from the nickel and copper in coins to the gold and silver in jewelry. Scientists have a good understanding of how these elements form: In many cases, a ...