Static electricity may seem simple. Students often learn that rubbing a balloon against their hair will cause negatively ...

Controlling light at the micro- and nanoscale opens up opportunities for a better understanding of the world and the development of technology. As modern electronics approaches the limits of its ...

Researchers trained a neural network that can use ion momentum to work backward and predict the pre-blast geometry of a molecule.

MIT physicists have built a powerful new microscope that uses terahertz light to uncover hidden quantum motions inside superconductors. By compressing this normally unwieldy light into a tiny region, ...

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 ...

You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, while X-rays reveal its internal structures and infrared captures a ...

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 ...

Yet even at this apparently late date in the field’s development, there are companies that are still developing entirely new qubit technologies, betting the company that they have identified something ...

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

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 ...