The experiment also showed that tuning the light beam controlled the propulsion—the stronger the laser, the greater the ...

Two extremely precise experiments agree with a previously shocking measurement of just how big the proton is, which may help ...

FELs require a bright and stable source of high-energy electron bunches, so today’s facilities are driven by large and ...

A team of physicists has pushed the limits of quantum control by cooling the rotational motion of a nanoscale object to its lowest possible energy state.

Physicists at multiple institutions are compressing particle accelerators from facility-scale machines stretching hundreds of ...

A newly published study in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams details a major milestone in accelerator physics: TAU Systems, working with researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has ...

For decades, physicists have chased the goal of bringing together the building blocks of ...

Lasers could one day steer solar sails and adjust a satellite's position in outer space, thanks to graphene. An experiment on ...

Crystals, bacterial colonies, flame fronts: the growth of surfaces was first described in the 1980s by the ...

Crystals, bacterial colonies, flame fronts: the growth of surfaces was first described in the 1980s by the ...

The Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation has been experimentally verified for the first time on 2D surfaces - thanks to sophisticated material design and polaritons. The question of how surfaces grow is one ...

After more than a decade of work, researchers now say they have uncovered the root cause of water’s unusual behavior. Their ...