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 ...

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

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

MIT physicists have taken a key step toward solving the puzzle of what leads electrons to split into fractions of themselves.

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 ...

Determining the passage of time in our world of ticking clocks and oscillating pendulums is a simple case of counting the ...

With the help of a powerful rare-earth alloy, magnet fishers pull garbage out of polluted waterways ...

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

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 ...

which makes it a good candidate to interact with the exciton's electrons. An electron that is promoted to a higher orbital in ...

Scientists have developed a new protective coating that significantly extends the life of perovskite solar cells, making them more practical for applications outside the lab.