It's a paper that's been more than four decades in the making. Published in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, a study ...

The H.E.S.S. Observatory in Namibia records the most energetic cosmic ray electrons, revealing nearby accelerators.

It's hard to tell when you're catching some rays at the beach, but light packs a punch. Not only does a beam of light carry ...

In this microscopic world, electrons can exist in several places at the same time ... Artist's depiction of a qubit formed ...

The most energetic cosmic rays are accelerated in extremely energetic events, like around supermassive black holes. But those ...

Astronomers detected the highest-energy electrons and positrons ever recorded on Earth, shedding new light on a century-old ...

"If you're using a counter, you have to define zero. You start counting at some point," physicist Marta Berholts from the ...

A traditional “single bond” is actually two electrons—one from each atom. This is one electron. The fragile bond required outside-the-box thinking, with a complex molecule acting as a shell. From the ...

Electricity means the presence or motion of electrical charge. When the charge is moving from its source (origin) to sink ...

Traditionally, X-ray methods require at least 10,000 atoms to generate a detectable signal. This is because the X-ray signal ...

Does light behave more like a particle, or like a wave? Today we know the surprising answer. Here's why it took so long to ...

Research on moscovium and nihonium shows they are more reactive than flerovium and subject to notable relativistic effects, ...