Phonons are the quantum units of mechanical vibration. They describe how motion propagates through a solid at the smallest ...

In the fight against climate change, solar power is a promising alternative to fossil fuels. Every second, Earth receives an ...

Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the United States, European XFEL, and collaborating institutions recently built a generative AI model that can recreate molecular structures ...

My friends and family have watched in amusement as I, a rock and roller who loves to dance late into the night at The Stone Pony, have fallen in love with runDisney. I’ve never worn a tutu or glitter, ...

If you were asked to picture how electrons move, you could be forgiven for imagining a stream of particles sluicing down a wire like water rushing through a pipe. After all, we often describe ...

For over a century, the world’s factories, kilns and trucks have been powered by “molecules” — oil, coal and gas burnt for heat and motion. That age is now giving way to one where competitiveness is ...

IN June of last year (Proc. Phys. Soc., vol. 40, p. 284) I made a preliminary announcement of an experiment on the diffraction of electrons from a ruled grating in much the same way as has been done ...

Quantum physics overturned classical ideas by showing that matter behaves very differently at the smallest scales. One of its most surprising discoveries was wave-particle duality, the idea that ...

Superradiance When multiple electrons emit light in a coordinated manner, the resulting emission is much stronger than the sum of individual emissions. (Courtesy ...

Lab scale: Members of Ashley Bucsek’s group can now use three-dimensional X-ray diffraction to study polycrystalline materials on campus, whereas they would previously only have been able to do this ...

In the Monday edition of the Boston Globe, 2018 Boston Marathon champion Des Linden announced that she would be retiring from professional marathoning after running today’s race. She addressed the ...

IN 1924, Prince Louis de Broglie put forward the thesis that all material particles, and in particular electrons, have properties analogous to those of a train of waves. This view, which is now ...