In high-intensity laser–matter interactions, including laser-induced particle acceleration, physicists generally want to work ...

Muons are unstable subatomic particles that spontaneously and rapidly transform into other particles via a process known as ...

This supercapacitor doesn’t look like much—but the physics behind it is solid. Using Kapton tape, a cheap laser, and basic ...

Magnets can pull or push objects without even touching them. This video explains how that invisible force works using simple ...

Scientists at Columbia University have combined lasers and nanotech to trap massive atom arrays for next-gen quantum ...

A team of physicists has discovered a surprisingly simple way to build nuclear clocks using tiny amounts of rare thorium. By ...

Scientists at the X-ray free-electron laser SwissFEL have realised a long-pursued experimental goal in physics: to show how electrons dance together.

Researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have reported the first observation of a dynamic magnetochiral instability in a solid-state material ...

The future arrived on December 28, 2025 as the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) announced that Iron Beam became the first ...

Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though ...

The physics department at UC Santa Barbara houses its own powerful particle accelerator that accelerates electrons to 99.4% of the speed of light: The Sherwin Group’s ability to produce short and ...

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and Allan MacDonald received the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for pioneering work that ...