As given by Britain’s brilliant, opinionated Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, the seven fundamental constants of Nature are: e, the charge of an electron; m, the mass of an electron (at rest); M, the ...

A crucial number that rules the universe goes big in a strange quantum material. The fine-structure constant is about 10 times its normal value in a type of material called quantum spin ice, ...

In a new development that could help redefine the future of technology, a team of physicists has uncovered a fundamental insight into the upper limit of superconducting temperature. This research, ...

The answer to this question puts a spotlight on two revolutionary 19th-century scientists. In 1828, the Scottish botanist Robert Brown published his observation that tiny particles in suspension were ...