Scientists have made the first experimental observation of matter wave diffraction in a short-lived electron-positron atom.
A team of physicists has done something that sounds impossible: they filmed points of absolute darkness racing through a beam ...
Two of the forefathers of quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, had a famous argument over whether light is a wave ...
Researchers in Konstanz discovered a way to manipulate materials with light by exciting magnon pairs, reshaping their magnetic “fingerprint.” This allows non-thermal control of magnetic states and ...
More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...
In 1845, physicist Michael Faraday provided the first direct evidence that electromagnetism and light are related. Now, it turns out that this connection is even stronger than Faraday imagined. In his ...
Dark Spots Inside A Laser Beam Filmed Moving Faster Than Light In A Nutshell Scientists have filmed dark spots inside a light wave appearing to move faster than light, without violating any laws of ...