An ultrafast optical experiment measures a hidden electronic property that helps shape how crystals respond to light.

Building the Nobel-prizewinning neutrino experiment was a big risk. To continue its success, scientists — and funders — need ...

Experimentalists and theorists unite to develop and model a new technique for controlling a material’s magnetization on ...

Researchers at TU Wien and UC San Diego have created the first continuously tunable X-ray harmonic source, sliding smoothly ...

Tiny atoms and molecules are constantly bombarding each other all around us. While we regularly measure the large-scale ...

Discover how Styropyro’s mechanical light bulb inspired by a 1675 invention works as a nuclear engineer breaks down the ...

And it could be particle ‘penguins’ that are to blame ...

Introduction]"When you snap a sugar cube (sucrose crystal) with pliers in a pitch-black room, a faint, pale blue light ...

Avik Dutt, a new JQI Fellow at UMD, explores how light’s self-influence unlocks more sensitive quantum sensors.

Black hole IRAS 18293-0941 fires a plasma jet toward Earth at 75% light speed, but at 12,000 light-years away, it poses zero threat.

These cataclysmic explosions spray intense radiation and beams of energy through the universe at close to the speed of light.

Theorists have shown that light can exert a pulling force on short carbon nanotubes, an effect that emerges from the ...