A single lightning bolt heats the narrow column of air around it to roughly 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the U.S.

The IT industry has gotten good at developing computer systems that can easily work at the nanosecond and millisecond scales. Chip makers have developed multiple techniques that have helped drive the ...

(Bloomberg) — In the unfathomably fast realm of high-frequency trading, a South Korean startup’s plan to build a microchip that speeds markets up by a few microseconds is bound to get some ...

Everything you see around and is there in outer space originated from superhot quark-gluon plasma. Moments after the Big Bang, the universe was unimaginably hot, dense, and filled with freely moving ...

High-energy physics is facing its greatest crisis ever. The Standard Model is complete, as all the particles our most successful physics theories have predicted have been discovered. The Large Hadron ...

Ars Technica’s Chris Lee has spent a good portion of his adult life playing with lasers, so he’s a big fan of photon-based quantum computing. Even as various forms of physical hardware like ...

For the past five years, hundreds of scientists have been using a powerful new atom smasher at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island to mimic conditions that existed at the birth of the ...

The U.S. government calculates the country's official time using more than a dozen atomic clocks at a federal facility northwest of Denver. But when a destructive windstorm knocked out power to the ...