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

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

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

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

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

Lunar samples serve as a critical link between orbital remote sensing and ground-truth measurements. Previous sample-return ...

If findings are correct, astronomer Tomonori Totani told Newsweek, this may finally solve "the greatest mystery in cosmology.

The swirling field traps and accelerates electron particles inside the tube, forcing them into a spiral motion. As they move ...

This engine doesn’t power anything in particular except our deeper understanding of thermodynamics as well microscopic ...

Aerosols are tiny particles of liquid or solid material that drift through the air and are constantly present in our surroundings. Some are big enough to spot, like spring pollen, while others, ...

Using lasers as tweezers to understand cloud electrification might sound like science fiction but at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria ...

2 months of ‘unprecedented measurement precision’ by world’s largest neutrino detector raises hopes for unlocking secrets of ...