In 1931, Harvey Elliott White developed a device that traced out the shapes of electron clouds by approximating solutions to ...

CERN’s CLEAR facility investigates novel medical applications of electron beams and the resilience of electronics in space. A ...

The last gasp of a primordial black hole may be the source of the highest-energy "ghost particle" detected to date, a new MIT ...

Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

Researchers from Japan have discovered a unique Hall effect resulting from deflection of electrons due to "in-plane ...

Graphene is stronger than steel and a better conductor that copper, making the two-dimensional material of particular ...

For scientists, that has long posed a problem: According to physicists’ best current theories, matter and its counterpart, ...

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Surprisingly, they found that only around 10% of a quake’s energy causes the physical shaking most people associate with ...

A decade ago, the first gravitational waves confirmed that black holes collide. Telescopes soon revealed shadows of giants lurking at galaxy cores. The next frontier is stranger: tiny black holes from ...