A light particle can appear to leave a cloud of atoms before it enters – a new experiment, asking the atoms, confirms the ...
XPP, the X-ray Pump Probe instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), is back online and welcoming researchers ...
Water has been studied for centuries, yet it keeps revealing new tricks under pressure. In experiments published in May 2026, ...
A good number of important scientific inquiries center on the physics of explosions. The new facility will help scientists ...
At high power, laser light inside a multimode optical fiber is supposed to misbehave. The beam usually breaks into a noisy, scattered pattern as the light ricochets through many paths at once.
One of the defining breakthroughs that set quantum physics apart from classical physics was the realization that matter behaves very differently at ...
Quantum physics once shocked scientists by revealing that particles can behave like waves—and now, that strange behavior has ...