For two decades, a deceptively simple question has split condensed‑matter physicists: do the electrons in gold quietly align ...

They recreate how a camera would see objects traveling at 99.9% of the speed of light, revealing surprising relativistic ...

New tools that create ultra-precise maps of our tissues are transforming our ability to diagnose and cure once-fatal ...

In spaces smaller than a wavelength of light, electric currents jump from point to point and magnetic fields corkscrew through atomic lattices in ways that defy intuition. Scientists have only ever ...

An effect first observed decades ago by Nobel laureate Arthur Ashkin has been used to fine tune the electrical charge on ...

To see Earth from space is to be forever changed by the view. Since Alan Shepard became the first American to lay eyes on our ...

Lightning is one of the most familiar spectacles in the sky, yet the exact spark that starts a bolt has remained stubbornly out of reach. Now a physicist has managed to trap a microscopic particle and ...