A new theoretical study finds shorter laser pulses achieve higher quantum efficiency for photoemission from a solid surface ...

Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle states that there are limits to how precisely certain pairs of physical properties, like ...

Scientists have made the first experimental observation of matter wave diffraction in a short-lived electron-positron atom.

Researchers in the US have begun removing RHIC components to build the world's only fully polarized electron-ion collider.

Wave or particle? Science continues to unravel one of humanity's greatest mysteries in this universe in rather useful ways.

There has been considerable debate among physicists over the last 15 years about conflicting measurements of the charge ...

Researchers in the UC Santa Barbara Materials Department have uncovered the elusive quantum mechanism by which energetic electrons break chemical bonds inside microelectronic devices — a detrimental ...

Measurement of W boson particle mass confirms Standard Model of physics and reignites the search for other particles.

The new calculation, made at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, could help solve a niggling mystery about this ...

A new calculation helps narrow down the mass of the W boson, one of the heaviest fundamental particles in the universe ...

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

Physicists have proposed a way to extract the internal quantum states of electron wave packets by analyzing how those packets ...