A nanoparticle in the field of a femtosecond laser pulse with tailored waveform and polarization. The controlled enhancement of the field in specific nanoscopic regions…
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Two light beams from flashlights will not be influenced by each other when they cross. This is different for very intense laser pulses which meet…
Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering reveals high-energy nematic spin correlations in the nematic state of the iron-based superconductor, FeSe. Credit: Beijing Normal University/Qi Tang and Xingye…
Time evolution of cough while wearing a face mask. Credit: Tomas Solano Proper Fit Crucial for Optimal Mask Protection Face shape influences mask fit, suggests…
Illustration of cloud-like ionized plasma in the ITER fusion reactor tokamak. Credit: ITER Physicists at EPFL, within a large European collaboration, have revised one of…
“Levy flights” describe statistical properties of elementary quantum magnets as well as of bees foraging for food. Credit: Christoph Hohmann (MCQST Cluster) Quantum simulator provides…
Credit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory The new facility, LCLS-II, will soon sharpen our view of how nature works on ultrasmall, ultrafast scales, impacting everything from…
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Credit: Marvel Studios Whether you need a new villain or an old Spider-Man, your sci-fi movie will sound…
Optical microscope image of the acoustic resonator viewed from above (two larger disks, the inner of which is the piezoelectric transducer) and of the antenna…
A recent series of precise measurements of already known, standard particles and processes have threatened to shake up physics. As a physicist working at the…
New research explores the imaginative possibility that our reality is only one half of a pair of interacting worlds. Physicists sometimes come up with bizarre…
Using easily available equipment and substances in anyone’s kitchen, you can complete home study projects to learn about complex fluid behavior. Home study projects of…
“Visualizing the Proton” – Physicists’ Innovative Animation Depicts the Subatomic World in a New Way
MIT professor of physics Richard Milner, Jefferson Laboratory physicists Rolf Ent and Rik Yoshida, MIT documentary filmmakers Chris Boebel and Joe McMaster, and Sputnik Animation’s…
Scientists report the formation of matter-wave polaritons in an optical lattice, an experimental discovery that enables studies of a central quantum science and technology paradigm…
Using sophisticated computer modeling, a team of physicists and chemists has shown that errors in DNA reokication can arise due to the strange rules of…
To study superconducting materials in their “normal,” non-superconducting state, scientists usually switch off superconductivity by exposing the material to a magnetic field, left. SLAC scientists…
Artist interpretation of superconductor transition. Credit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory The results cap 15 years of detective work aimed at understanding how these materials transition…
A SLAC-led team has invented a method, called XLEAP, that generates powerful low-energy X-ray laser pulses that are only 280 attoseconds, or billionths of a…
An illustrative depiction of the light-induced ferromagnetism that the researchers observed in ultrathin sheets of tungsten diselenide and tungsten disulfide. Laser light, shown in yellow,…