FELs require a bright and stable source of high-energy electron bunches, so today’s facilities are driven by large and ...

World-first crystal tunes laser light to power ultra-precise, compact nuclear clocks which could guide submarines and ...

A beam of electrons crossed just a few millimeters of plasma, then helped trigger an effect that usually belongs to massive ...

Scientists have taken a major step toward futuristic energy tech by building a working prototype of a quantum battery—one ...

Scientists have taken a major step toward probing one of physics’ biggest mysteries—how gravity and quantum mechanics fit ...

The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation has been experimentally verified for the first time on 2D surfaces - thanks to sophisticated material design and polaritons. The question of how surfaces grow is one ...

Researchers have developed a new imaging technique that captures more information about ultrafast processes in the ...

Two of the forefathers of quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, had a famous argument over whether light is a wave ...

In a lab at Osaka University, physicist Yoshiki Nakata and his colleagues fired a pulsed laser through a stack of three ...

John Pendry is known for creating an invisibility cloak. Twenty years on, he has used the same principles to fashion an even ...

A cloud of helium atoms split, scattered and fell under gravity, yet still behaved as if its parts were linked. That is the ...