First, the researchers used a short laser pulse about 200 nanometers in wavelength to excite ammonia molecules. This pump ...

For as long as people have watched storms roll across the sky, lightning has inspired awe and fear. You can see the flash and ...

In Sept. 2012, NASA’s Van Allen Probes observed the radiation belts around Earth had settled into a new configuration, separating into three belts instead of two. Scientists think the unusual physics ...

“Dark” electrons within solid materials may help us learn more about the behaviour of high-temperature superconductors, and perhaps solve other mysteries in material science. Most of a material’s ...

According to the Big Bang theory, normal matter composed of protons, neutrons, and electrons should account for roughly 5% of ...

Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though ...

Mohammad Hafezi, a Joint Quantum Institute Fellow, and his colleagues investigated how changing the ratio of fermionic to ...