Electrons can be elusive, but Cornell researchers using a new computational method can now account for where they go—or don't ...

Listening to the "whispers" of electrons and crystals has lead to a quantum discovery with terahertz light that could help us ...

Over the past decades, engineers have introduced numerous technologies that rely on light and its underlying characteristics.

A number of advanced energy technologies—including fuel cells, electrolyzers, and an emerging class of low-power ...

“Our achievement may herald a new form of matter combining characteristics of solids and liquids in the same material,” ...

While daydreaming on a bus, and then while dozing by the fireside, Auguste Kekulé realized that carbon atoms can combine into complex structures.

From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the experiments they would run ...

There are two equally important pieces to a successful energy transition. First, energy solutions succeed only if people can ...

The famous double-slit experiment brings into question the very nature of matter. Its cousin, the quantum eraser experiment, ...

Far beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, a tank of liquid xenon is quietly recording some of the faintest signals in the ...

The assumption that big spinning machines are needed to keep the lights on could delay the exit of coal. Hence the need to ...

Discover how Ramanujan's century-old pi formulas connect to modern cosmology and turbulent fluid physics in groundbreaking ...