Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound structures in the universe, with each containing hundreds or even ...

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a surprising source of entropy in quantum timekeeping—the act of measurement itself. In a study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists ...

Scientists learned that reading a quantum clock requires orders of magnitude more energy than running it. This surprising imbalance reveals that observation itself shapes the flow and thermodynamics ...

For the first time, scientists from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry in China have identified a plant that naturally forms nanocrystals of monazite containing rare earth elements.