Excitons—bound pairs of electrons and an electron hole—are quasiparticles that can arise in solids. While so-called "bright" ...

Quantum mechanics has a reputation that precedes it. Virtually everyone who has bumped up against the quantum realm, whether ...

Study shows how photolithography techniques can be used to not just make a micron-scale shape, but control it, too.

NOAA's GOES-16 satellite captured the sun blast a "huge rush of mass" that warped the magnetic field, according to the ...

A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...

Magnetic field data collected by ESA's Swarm satellites and other sources has been coverted into these frightening sounds.

Research teams led by CAS institutions including the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG) and the National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC), along with Nanjing University and others, have made ...

Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

The near $16-million reduction would impact "our national security, global positioning, and economic growth," wrote U.S.Rep.