Light can do more than illuminate a material. In some cases, it can temporarily change how electrons move through it.

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

Billions of cigarette butts end up on sidewalks, beaches, and gutters each year. They are small, easy to ignore, and hard to ...

On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...

For the first time, physicists have watched a beam of positronium, a short‑lived atom made of an electron and its antimatter ...

Physicists working at ultra-low temperatures have stumbled onto a quantum phase that should not exist according to the usual ...

Researchers announced that they have achieved the world's first elucidation of how hydrogen produces free electrons through ...

What if you could create new materials just by shining a light at them? To most, this sounds like science fiction or alchemy, ...

When quantum spins interact, they can produce collective behaviors that defy long-standing expectations. Researchers have now shown that the Kondo effect behaves very differently depending on spin ...