It took weeks to observe the behavior of one and a half dozen precious, but very short-lived, atoms of these exotic elements.

Obi Kaufmann has spent a lot of time thinking about California’s fires. “There’s no way I can pull this punch: To live in California, you are going to live with fire,” says Kaufmann during an ...

Denchfield, a Physics Ph.D. candidate at UIC, co-authored the study with Associate Professor of Physics Hyowon Park and Professor of Physics and Chemistry Russell Hemley ... such as substituting ...

New materials designed by a University of Illinois Chicago graduate student may help scientists meet one of today's biggest ...

For decades, scientists have looked for materials that could make superconductivity -- the lossless transmission of electricity -- possible at higher temperatures, such as room temperature. That would ...