A team led by Francesca Ferlaino has set a new milestone in atomic physics by trapping individual erbium atoms in optical ...

In a new experiment, light beams carrying orbital angular momentum caused electrons in graphene to gain (blue beam) and lose ...

In a recent study in Nature, scientists reported that moiré materials made from semiconductor materials can also be superconducting, a property once considered to be exclusive to the graphene system, ...

"The geometry and optical properties of the environment has profound consequences for how photons are emitted, including ...

Scientists demonstrate how atomic size differences control metal catalyst structure at nanoscale, achieving major ...

A century ago, physicists laid the foundations of quantum mechanics. One of them, Louis de Broglie, disavowed a famous theory ...

Quantum dots can cool themselves by turning low energy light into higher-energy photons, which are radiated away. The idea, ...

A new ion superhighway modeled after human cells could speed our batteries way up. Digging out a nanochannel for charged ions ...

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Understanding the origin of the mass of subatomic particles like protons and neutrons is a major challenge in modern physics.

When you think of electric fields, you likely think of electricity the stuff that makes modern life possible by powering ...