US researchers say they have built a laser system precise and powerful enough to control vast grids of atoms, a step they ...

In this guest blog, Karen McNulty Walsh of Brookhaven National Laboratory explains how Michigan Technological University ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Scientists have uncovered a new way embryonic cells divide when conventional mechanisms fail. Cell division underpins all ...

Researchers led by Rice University's Guido Pagano used a specialized quantum device to simulate a vibrating molecule and ...