Medieval alchemists toiled unsuccessfully to change lead into gold, but physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland had better luck – though for only a microsecond. Instead of alchemy, ...

Researchers have investigated what happened to a specific kind of plasma -- the first matter ever to be present -- during the first microsecond of Big Bang. Their findings provide a piece of the ...

On today's Planet Money: In high-frequency trading, people program computers to buy and sell stocks in quick succession under certain, pre-defined circumstances. The idea is to profit from fleeting ...

As we move through 2023, enterprises will increasingly demand that their data “circulatory system”—data storage, movement, sharing, processing and analytics—run on an end-to-end microsecond computing ...

A new technology that could represent an advanced medical diagnostic tool for the early detection of cancer and other diseases is made possible with this electronic device developed at Purdue's ...

Plasma evolved from being its own form of matter to the cores of atoms and the building blocks of life within 0.000001 seconds of the Big Bang, experts claim. About 14 billion years ago our universe ...

How polypeptide chains acquire specific conformations to realize unique biological functions is a central problem of protein science. Single-molecule spectroscopy, combined with fluorescence resonance ...

Michael has been writing about entertainment since 2016, but he's been a gamer since playing Pac-Man in the arcade, Kings Quest 3 on the PC, and the Sega Master System he got from his late father. In ...