A centimeter-sized crystal has revealed clear signs of quantum entanglement, showing that large, everyday objects can display surprisingly deep quantum behavior. The discovery could help solve the ...

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In the summer of 1960, physicist Theodore H. Maiman conducted a laboratory experiment at Hughes Research Laboratories that produced the first laser beam. Using a high-energy flashlamp and a small ...

According to the American Physical Society, in 1960, the laser was largely a scientific curiosity; today it is central to technologies used daily by millions, from medicine and internet communications ...

Crystals are objectively beautiful. They come in just about any color you could want, reflecting light or dispersing it in ways that feel unfair to an average rock. Scientists recently published ...

EASTHAMPTON — Walking down a winding trail at Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary, you might not think much of a little cabin situated in a small clearing. But if you walk past that cabin on a Saturday ...

A 'selfie' taken by the Curiosity rover taken on the Martian surface. Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSS Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSS Scientists have found the building blocks of rubies and ...

Over the past five years, a six-wheeled robot has been exploring the Martian terrain and capturing unusual features like a leopard-spotted rock, a tangle of strings, and textured rock formations that ...

Diamond is famously known as the hardest mineral on Earth. But researchers have been pursuing an unusual variant of it — known as hexagonal diamond — that might be even harder. After decades of claims ...

Illustrating showing Thomas Edison holding graphene on the left and a man with safety goggles holding a large blue crystal on the right Crystal craze: Fortuitous experiments led to graphene in a ...