The double slit experiment reveals that observing light changes its behavior, making it act as both a wave and a particle.

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

A bullet-speed experiment reveals that the Earth's inner core may be softer and more dynamic than previously thought.

A nanostructure made of silver and an atomically thin semiconductor layer can be turned into an ultrafast switching mirror ...

Researchers in Germany have unveiled an ultra-fast light switch made of very thin semiconductor ...

Louis E. Brus, a chemist and Nobel laureate who discovered quantum dots, tiny crystals that emit various colors of light ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

Experiments reveal that metallic nanoparticles thousands of atoms wide can exist in quantum superposition, providing a ...

Researchers from the University of Vienna and the University of Duisburg-Essen showed that metallic ...

Albert Einstein was right about a shocking among of things, but not necessarily everything.

After submerging the robot in underwater tunnels designed to mimic swimming near the sea floor, their tests indicate that ...