If you think of a single atom as a grain of sand, then a wavelength of visible light—which is a thousand times larger than ...

Confining and rotating extremely cold atoms or molecules within atomic “Ferris wheels” made from laser light could test ...

Dark matter remains one of the most mysterious substances in the universe. We can’t see it, but we know it’s out there, ...

Today, Google and a large collection of academic collaborators are publishing a paper describing a computational approach ...

Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" ...

Inside the search for the tiny particles that might be causing big problems for every human being on the planet.

The new quantum computing algorithm, called "Quantum Echoes," is the first that can be independently verified by running it ...

PLQY is a measure of how efficiently a material converts absorbed light into emitted light. It’s the ratio of the number of ...

The global carbon fiber market revenue was around US$ 6.1 billion in 2023 and is estimated to reach US$ 16.1 billion by 2032, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.4% during the ...

Students and faculty of UC Santa Barbara’s physics department gathered in Corwin Pavilion for the department’s annual Nobel Prize-focused colloquium on Oct. 14. This year’s event was particularly spec ...