SLAC researchers used X-ray beams and the particle accelerator to recover the work of an ancient astronomer, who made the earliest known attempt to log the stars.

This is what the creation of a Higgs Boson looks like to the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: CERN) The Higgs boson is, if ...

Scientists analyzing data from heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—the world's most powerful particle ...

Photo of Richard Feynman, taken in 1984 in the woods of the Robert Treat Paine Estate in Waltham, MA, while he and the ...

A central part of the experiment is a hybrid nanostructure that combines two materials with very different properties.

A bullet-speed experiment reveals that the Earth's inner core may be softer and more dynamic than previously thought.

A nanostructure made of silver and an atomically thin semiconductor layer can be turned into an ultrafast switching mirror ...

Researchers in Germany have unveiled an ultra-fast light switch that operates 10,000 times quicker than today's computing ...

In a tokamak—a donut-shaped device that uses magnetic fields to confine plasma—sudden disruptions can occur. During these events, electrons can accelerate to near the speed of light, creating a ...

Sandia scientists demonstrate AI's role in directing LED light, potentially transforming technologies with energy-efficient ...

The speed of light is one of the most famous constants in physics, yet it has never been directly measured in the way most ...