Real particles are lumps of energy that can be "seen" or detected by appropriate instruments; this feature is what makes them ...

Virtual particles exploit the natural fuzziness of the subatomic world, where if these ephemeral particles live briefly ...

Scientist and physicist Ernest Rutherford, known as “the father of nuclear physics”, was the most respected Kiwi of his day.

Inspired by an artist's stencils, researchers have developed atomic-level precision patterning on nanoparticle surfaces, ...

In March 1979, one of two reactors at the Three Mile Island plant in central Pennsylvania partially melted down, in what is ...

Because there’s no current in the insulating layer, charge is trapped inside that layer, and the classical laws of physics say that voltage should also measure zero. Just as a tennis ball thrown at a ...

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

The nature of dark matter remains one of the greatest mysteries in cosmology. Within the standard framework of ...

Researchers have found that 2D materials can self-form microscopic cavities that trap light and electrons, altering their quantum behavior. With a miniaturized terahertz spectroscope, the team ...

0D nanomaterials are defined by their confinement: in the zeroth dimension, electrons are restricted in all three spatial ...