A new kind of plasma accelerator has cleared a hurdle that has dogged the field for decades, lifting electron energy and beam ...

Liquids and solutions may look simple, but on the molecular scale they are constantly shifting and reorganizing. When sugar dissolves in water, each sugar molecule quickly becomes surrounded by fast ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Nearly everything in the universe is made of mysterious dark matter and dark energy, yet we can’t see either of them directly ...

The scientists behind the MAGIS-100 experiment aim to use state-of-the-art lasers to shed light on ultralight dark matter.

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, ...

The U.S. Army’s latest laser weapon is no longer a bulky science project strapped to a shipping pallet. It has been squeezed ...

Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have, for the first time, demonstrated a technique that synchronises ultrashort ...

Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of California, Los ...

China's artificial sun breaks density limit that caused fusion experiments to fail, moving closer to clean energy.

Exciton polaritons are hybrid light-matter quantum states arising from strong coupling, offering a unique platform for ...