The quantum world is famously weird—a single particle can be in two places at once, its properties are undefined until they ...

We’re used to seeing ever greater particle accelerators — colossal machines sprawling across landscapes, built to reveal the ...

UChicago physics Prof. Bonnie Fleming, who is also the chief research officer at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is ...

The supercollider is now being used to explore quantum phenomena, including a “magic” form of quantum entanglement.

Using a precisely aligned pair of laser beams, scientists can now hold a single aerosol particle in place and monitor how it ...

A doctoral student travels to Washington to explain the enigma of neutrinos, particles that are as strange as they are ...

Scientists mix plasmas of antiprotons and positrons in a magnetic bottle called a Penning-Malmberg trap. When these particles ...

Lightning is one of the most familiar spectacles in the sky, yet the exact spark that starts a bolt has remained stubbornly out of reach. Now a physicist has managed to trap a microscopic particle and ...

Physicists have now demonstrated a particle accelerator so small it fits inside a single molecule, shrinking one of science’s ...

With the help of carbon nanotubes and laser light, this machine can create immensely powerful X-rays on a microchip, ...

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Using lasers as tweezers to understand cloud electrification might sound like science fiction, but at the Institute of ...