What happens when electrons leave a solid material? This seemingly simple phenomenon has, until now, eluded accurate ...

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A team of researchers from TU Wien has shed new light on the behavior of electrons fleeing a solid material. Their research ...

So how do you get an electron to float on top of helium? To find out, Ars spoke with Johannes Pollanen, the chief scientific officer of EeroQ, the company that accomplished the new work. He said that ...

When high-energy radiation interacts with water in living organisms, it generates particles and slow-moving electrons that ...

Virtual particles may not be real, but they help physicists track how forces move, and allow for incredibly precise measurements in particle physics.

As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...

Very early on in our universe, when it was a seething hot cauldron of energy, particles made of matter and antimatter bubbled ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum ...

Researchers have recently proven that common soil bacteria can use light captured earlier in the day to power chemical work ...