If you picture an electron breaking free from a solid, the process seems simple. Give it enough energy, and it should blast ...

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

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

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

If these knots had a slight bias toward matter over antimatter, their unraveling could help explain the matter-antimatter ...

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 ...

Chinese researchers used the Oceanlite supercomputer and a custom NNQS model to simulate molecular systems with 120 spin ...

"They are the parents of all matter in the universe today, including our own bodies, while the knots can be thought of as our grandparents," physicist Yu Hamada explained.

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 ...

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

The rate r, in the context of NASA spacecraft measurements, is a generalized term representing various types of rates that are crucial in different scientific disciplines. The specific definition of r ...