At the smallest scales of nature, the rules of the world shift in ways that can feel unsettling and beautiful at the same ...

First experimental observation of matter-wave diffraction in a short-lived electron-positron atom using a graphene-based diffraction grating. (Nanowerk News) One of the discoveries that fundamentally ...

Photoionization mass spectrometry has transformed analytical chemistry, enabling complex chemical analysis and celebrating a ...

Physicists have finally watched positronium, a short‑lived atom made of an electron and its antimatter twin, behave like a rippling quantum wave instead of a tiny billiard ball. In a set of ...

A microscopic clump of sodium has become the largest object ever to be observed as a wave, improving upon previous records by ...

You can tell a lot about a material based on the type of light shining at it: Optical light illuminates a material's surface, ...

Researchers at Santa Clara University have developed a comprehensive mathematical framework to rigorously analyze and predict ...

It may sound like an oxymoron, but this massive nanoparticle made up of 7,000 sodium atoms is the largest to exhibit such ...

For over a century, light has both helped and limited our view of the ...

MIT physicists have built a new microscope that can see quantum motion inside superconductors ...

The rumored new iPhone design is expected to be vastly different from what we've seen so far, with a change as drastic as the ...

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