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Physicists are taking their quantum powers to the next level — the next energy level, that is. Researchers have controlled the motion of a trapped ion, an electrically charged atom, better than ever ...

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are shaping major design and research decisions for the planned Electron-Ion ...

Research groups led by Prof. Xu Tongwen and Prof. Li Xingya from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) have proposed the concept of total dehydration of ions, and prepared ...

Time already behaves strangely in modern physics. It can stretch, slow, and split depending on speed and gravity. Now a new theoretical study pushes that weirdness into even stranger territory. It ...

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New computer calculations have revealed that a century-long assumption in chemistry is wrong. At the crux of the matter is the movement of the hydroxide ion, OH –, in water. Hydroxide ions and protons ...

When a scrappy team of scientists joined forces in the late 1990s, they sought to identify genetic mutations that could have an outsized impact on the treatment of human disease. At the time, that ...

Calcium is a very special nutrient. In the cells of most living beings calcium ions function as so-called second messengers to transmit important signals. The same applies equally to animal, plant and ...