Astrophysical bow shocks and other multiscale phenomena work like cosmic particle accelerators to launch electrons to ...

According to the researchers, the findings could have many future applications in quantum communication, metrology, and ...

If a clean, positively charged zinc plate is exposed to intense white light it will not discharge. If a clean, negatively charged zinc plate is exposed to intense white light it will not discharge.

How can that be? The fact light can act like particles sometimes and waves at other times is something that has long been studied, and the wave-particle duality is one basic explanation.

In fact, in a lot of experiments light acts much more like a wave than like a particle. This wave nature produces some interesting effects. For example, if an electron traveling around a nucleus ...

Scientists have come a step closer to understanding how collisionless shock waves -- found throughout the universe -- are able to accelerate particles to extreme speeds.

For over a century, science has relentlessly pursued the demonstration of atom diffraction, a critical phenomenon for ...

The phenomenon of quantum tunneling transforms our understanding of particle behavior, enabling breakthroughs in ...